Premiere Elements 7.0 Crashing After Period of Stability

Hello
I have been using Premiere Elements 7.0 on my system for some time and after having had it crash about 50% of the time I finally got things to a point where they were working well. I carefully put a project together, keeping it in small sections and rendering it to high quality video files and then piecing it together in one final, overall project. I left it for about a month and then went back to it with a fresh mind and began tweeking it bit by bit, shortening some bits, changing some of the music etc., and otherwise greatly improving it.
After doing these steps I went back to tweak it some more and the program became very unstable, essentially crashing after every right-click of the media on the timeline or whenever I pressed stop after starting preview playback. I thought this could be an issue with my system, perhaps a Windows Update or new driver or something had caused this. Well, I got so frustrated, because I had put so much effort into this project, that I ordered Sony Vegas Home Studio Platinum 9.0 Pro Pack. I backed up my media and project and then reinstalled Vista from scratch, adding another hard drive and installing the latest drivers etc. I reinstalled Premiere Elements 7.0.
I tried to open the project I was working on again and the first time I tried it, with my second drive as a scratch disk, it seemed to run very well. When I started editing the project a bit more it started crashing again in the same circumstances - when I right clicked any clips on the timeline or after stopping the clip playing after starting playback.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do? By reinstalling my system I have essentially done the equivalent of many troubleshooting steps all at once, and I've cleaned the render cache of Premiere Elements 7.0 and stuff like that. I'm really trying to keep using Premiere Elements 7.0 and I've mastered the program to an intermediate level by using Steve Grisetti's excellent "Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 7" and Paul Ekerts' "Creating Hollywood Style Movies with Adobe Premiere Elements 7" but I am losing all faith in the program, the kind of faith that is necessary when completing long projects.

Sorry I haven't got back immediately, I'm on the other side of the world (Australia) so I'm asleep while you guys are responding (and I assume you guys are asleep now.)
I tried deleting the cache etc and re-rending everything but that didn't work. I tried altering Playback Properties to Compatible or Normal instead of GPU Accerated and I got excited when it stopped crashing whenever I right click anything on the timeline, but it still crashes when I start playback and then press stop or space bar to stop. So a little bit of progress.
I'm thinking that maybe it might be the latest Realtek Audio driver that I'm using which is a beta version but I'm not sure that I had it installed prior to reinstalling Vista. But I will try it later just to see.
As for the format that the sub-clipps that I rendered are in, they are avi files using YUV 422 10bit REC 709 format. I think its a professional format that is very large in size. Each clip is 1280x720 because my clip is going to YouTube. I would probably have not used such a big file size producing codec but it worked perfect for several months which leads me to suspect that it is not the cause of my issues. The problem I have is that some of the resources I used to produce these sub-clipps have gone because I forgot to back them up, which means that if I want to alter the codec I use for each sub-clip I cannot go back and re-render but rather would have to transcode from the YUV 422 codec to a different one and I don't know of any programs that even recognise YUV 422 10bit other than Premiere Elements. And it's a lot of extra work just to find out that it might not even help.
I have the final almost complete project as a rendered mp4 file that I can upload to YouTube in its partially completed form if I have to, but I think I could make it 10 times better with just a little extra work so I'm hoping I don't have to do that.

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Thank you for the clarification. Titles should not be an issue at all. You are correct,they are an intrensic part of PrE, and should cause no issues.
I think that Neale's link will be useful. A lot of that material should be X-platform, but you will see some that is Windows-specific, especially as PrE was not X-platform, until PrE 9, and some of the suggestions, while still applicable, were when the program was only on the PC. Also, I gathered up some of it, and have to admit that I am a Mac-illiterate.
Something is definitely wrong with your PrE 9.0, with your system, or with its setup. Steve Grisetti, our MOD here, uses PrE 9.0 on an iMac, that is not a powerhouse computer, and has had few issues. I'd like to hear his comments, as he is X-platform, and many of us are only PC-guys. It's not that we do not want to help, as we do, it's just that many of us do not know the ins-and-outs that might be specific to the Mac.
Now, aspects of performance, such as the nVidia, or ATI video drivers, updating QT and updating PrE are not platform-specific, and are places to look first.
Also, when PrE crashes, do you get any error messages? I can tell you where to look for OS errors and warnings on a PC, but am lost on the Mac. There has to be some process logging function in OSX, like Event Viewer in Windows. It basically logs every call to every service, program, or process, and monitors the response. When things do not go, as they should, a warning, or error message is written to Event Viewer. Some of those are just cryptic code, and meaningless to even a Windows engineer, but some will have real, useful data, and the best will have links to say the MS Web site, or maybe to a driver mfgr. with tips on what went wrong, and best of all, what to do about it. Unfortunately, I cannot even begin to tell you where to look on a Mac.
One other potential concern would be the amount of free space on your HDD's. PrE creates very large working files, and needs a lot of real estate, just to work. How much free space do you have on each of your HDD?
Sorry to just be thinking out loud here, and wish that I had some wonderful, and useful insight.
Good luck,
Hunt

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 keeps crashing

Does anyone know how to repair this? It either opens with a blank screen; I can't load anything because the timeline is not there. Or it will immediately crash after selecting a project.

From the Premiere Elements Information FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1042180
•You MUST use an account with Administrator Privileges to run Premiere Elements
•(Doing Run as Administrator http://forums.adobe.com/thread/969395 [says Encore and also for "All" versions of Premiere] will sometimes fix "odd" errors)
•What version of Premiere Elements? Include the minor version number (e.g., Premiere Elements 12 with the 12.0.1 update).
•What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.9.4"---not just "Mac"
•Has this ever worked before? If so, do you recall any changes you made to Premiere Elements, such as adding Plug-ins, brushes, etc.? Did you make any changes to your system, such as updating hardware, printers or drivers; or installing/uninstalling any programs?
•Have you installed any recent program or OS updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
•What kind(s) of image file(s)? When talking about camera raw files, include the model of camera.
•If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
•What were you doing when the problem occurred?
•What other software are you running?
•Tell us about your computer hardware. How much RAM is installed? How much free space is on your system (C:) drive?
•How many and what speed are your hard drive(s)... ie 5400rpm or 7200rpm or?
And some other questions...
•What are you editing, and does your video have a red line over it BEFORE you do any work?
•Which version of Quicktime do you have installed?
•What is your exact brand/model graphics adapter (ATI or nVidia or ???)
•What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
•Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
•For Windows, do NOT rely on Windows Update to have current driver information
•-you need to go direct to the vendor web site and check updates for yourself
•ATI Driver Autodetect http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
•nVidia Driver Downloads http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Premiere Elements 9 window disappears after loading project

Hello all,
I've been having issues with Premiere Elements (9) lately. I have read other threads similar to my problem and followed some of the instructions (deleting the Pref file, for example).
Whenever I open a specific project (that has worked before until recently), the loading progess bar goes from 0-100 and then it stays there. After that, the entire program disappears. It doesn't crash (as it's still in the task bar), but when I click on PrE9, nothing comes up. When I mouse-over the icon on the task bar, it's just the window buttons (minimize, expand, exit).
The reason I started this thread is because none of the problems I found were really similar to mine.
Any help would be much appreciated.
(Also, please pardon me if this thread is in the wrong place.)
Thanks!

Unitedmoviemaker
Have you looked at any possible involvement of the antivirus program in the way of recent updates for it? Recent Windows Updates? Can we assumed that you have not added, subtracted any programs that would coincide with the onset of the issue?
Have you checked to make sure that your video card is up to date according to the web site of the manufacturer of the video card?
Recently, with Premiere Elements 10 and NVIDIA video card, answers have come from rolling back the driver.
I guess you tried the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file deletion. But, did you try deleting the whole 9.0 Folder in which the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file exists?
Do you have the Premiere Elements 9 installation disc for installations files in case a deactivation, uninstall, run through of ccleaner, reinstall is indicated?
But, let me backup for a moment. Is this issue confined to one previously created project or to all your Premiere Elements projects either new or old?
Let us start here and then move forward according to your answers.
Thanks.
ATR
Add On...Usual...confirm that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed, you are running the program as the 9.0.1 Update, and you are running the program Run As Administrator or from a User Account with Administrative Privileges.

Premiere Elements hangs or crashes when importing .avi files

When making videos, I use .jpg and .avi files, since that's what my digital camera produces. Lately, if I start a new project, I can load the .jpg's, but when I attempt to load a .avi, the program (Premiere Elements 1, Windows XP, sp3) hangs. If I try to reopen an old project (all files are still there in the original locations), it looks like the program is starting to load the files, then I get an error message to the effect that "a serious error has occurred", and the program terminates. These are the same files from the same camera that have always loaded with no problem before.
There have been no hardware changes. The only software changes have been the update to XP (from sp2 to sp3), and periodic (unspecified) automatic software updates. Is Premiere Elements not compatible with sp3, or is something else going on? I need a clue as to where to look.

This is aimed a Premiere Pro, but may help
First, work through all of the steps here http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting
If your problem isn't fixed after you follow all of the steps, report back with the DETAILS asked for in the questions at the end of that link
Pay special attention to Question 1 - the Codec used in the file
You say "avi from a digital camera" which usually means it is not DV AVI Type 2 file, but instead is some other compressed type of file hiding in an AVI wrapper
My GUESS would be that some update and messed with your codec entries in the Registry, and the codec you need is no longer properly registered

Premiere Elements 9 project crashes frequently

I am using PE9 on only my second project. It is PAL HDV 1080i 25fps with footage captured from a Canon HV30. I am running on Windows 7.
My project is currently 50 minutes long and has a large number of stills. I am finding it crashes frequently, especially when I try to add a new title above a still. I own and have read the Muvipix Guide to PS9 and PE9 and am aware about not making images too large. In his book Steve states that for HD video slideshows the optimal photo size is 2200x1235 - mine are in fact 2048x1536. Should I be making them smaller? If I resize them to 1024x768 would it help? I am at this stage going to be producing a DVD and will lose the high def anyway, but later down the track (if I get a Blu-Ray burner) I may want to produce a Blu-Ray disc - with the smaller image size wouldn't I lose some quality?
I am really frustrated with the constant crashing and the need to save my project after every small change. I previously used Ulead Media Studio Pro which has been unsupported for nearly 5 years, and was a nightmare with crashing. At first I was really happy with PE9 but now I'm beginning to think there is no video editor that runs smoothly.

Thanks to Neale and Bill for the quick replies. I downloaded the latest audio driver and it seeme
d to take longer today before PE gave me a warning about low memory, and then continues without crash
ing. Yesterday I looked in the event viewer and found this:
Faulting application name: Adobe Premiere Elements.exe, version: 9.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4d01cdbb
Faulting module name: MSVCP90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.4926, time stamp: 0x4a1743c5
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00004d84
Faulting process id: 0x4c8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cbf58fc39379bf
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements 9\Adobe Premiere Elements.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.4926_none_508ed732bcb c0e5a\MSVCP90.dll
Report Id: 61c41cdb-6184-11e0-ad86-1c6f654ec536
The program Adobe Premiere Elements.exe version 9.0.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: d34
Start Time: 01cbf5710aa8b727
Termination Time: 85
Application Path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements 9\Adobe Premiere Elements.exe
Report Id: f55b2736-6182-11e0-ad86-1c6f654ec536
There are also a lot of messages about SQL Server Express which apparently runs as a service (for my share charting software) - should I be disabling it?
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I haven't looked at the videos re Case of the Unexplained but will do after Easter (going away).
I am thinking of splitting my project into 4 parts, rendering each part separately (in HD to produce an m2t file. Then another project (let's call it FINAL) would import the 4 m2t files to the timeline. This raises a couple of new questions:
1. Will I get any loss of quality if I output from FINAL in (a) m2t format for a HD web file, or (b) to a DVD
2. If I edit the m2t files on the timeline in FINAL will that affect final output quality
3. although I can output the work area only from my original project (45 minutes), I would prefer to have 4 short projects. Is there any way of selecting all clips in the work area, or in a certain part of the timeline, without having to do it manually. In other words how can I quickly split my full project into 4 11 minute projects?

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