Premiere / Encoder CC freezing during encode

Question

Hi, stuck rendering my project. My problem is similar to this description:
When I render via encoder, it renders the first couple of seconds, then freezes. I have tried to render directly from premiere with no luck, it just sits at 0%, it doesn't even begin. I have tried to relink all media, with no result. When I open the project, premiere pro becomes slow, and only show some of the thumbnails in the project panel. The source monitor remains blank, the program monitor shows "pending media".
I have similar project, and they all open and render just fine. Whats going on here?
Im on windows 7 pro.

Answer 1

I had same issue but more than 10 years ago with Premiere 6.5
It is possibly that project is corrupt or one (or more) of the imported files are corrupt. Did you try to remove that file where Premiere always stop rendering (if it is acceptable)? Or try to reimport that specific file. Also you can try to convert that file (if it is just one file that causing your problem) with some other App (e.g. .avi to .mpg) and than import that converted file and replace it in project.
When I had that similar problem I found 3 solutions. All solutions didn't work every time. The trick was to fool Premiere. First one was to move files to another place on the HDD and relink it (or even on another physical HDD). It solves my problem sometimes. Second one was to use cut tool and cut every long clip into smaller parts in timeline. That way Premiere do rendering slower (as I could see) and everything was OK. That solutions also not worked every time. Third way was to render whole project from parts - e.g. if I had 20 min. project, I render first 5 mins, then second 5 mins... Then I make new project from that rendered files and render it at once. That also not always solved the problem. Sometimes it was the problem with the project and I must do everything from beginning... As i found somewhere (that  days) all that (and few other) problems I had because of Matrox RT 2500 video card and Matrox Millennium G550 graphic card. There was special strict procedure of installation of that components and Premiere 6.5 If you have not done all the correct order, then you had to do all over again.
When I moved to Premiere Pro (and later) I never had that problem again.