Premiere keeps crashing

Question

Over the last few days, my Premiere Pro (CS6 Creative Cloud) has crashed nearly 30 times.
It's crashing seems completely unrelated to anything I'm doing as earlier I left my iMac alone for a few minutes and when i returned it had crashed.
I'm using a brand new iMac and have no idea why this keeps happening.
I'm still in the first month of my CC contract and I'm wondering if its worth cancelling because it's really inconvenient.
Anyone else having similar problems?
When I was using the trail version I had an issue where it would crash every time I tried to export but now it's happening far more frequently and at seemingly random points.
Thanks
Spencer

Answer 1

Yes, I don't know Tweetdeck but to get back to 'standard' configuration you should disable, (shut them down so they don't show up in the even temporarily, 3rd party apps that may be needing resources on a constant basis, beyond major packages like Adobe. I've even found that I encountered more crashes than I was expecting when I was running Chrome at the same time as Pr. A good rule of thumb is to try and keep your editing suite 'stand alone' (I know, it's never really only running itself), while using it. I don't run mail, browsers, or anything but Adobe's apps and underlying untilities when running Pr. I have a second machine for my 'office' activity. If I have to fireup Dropbox or a browser, I close the project at the very least, but usually close Pr for the time being. Activity monitor is what I use to check on these processes. I get rid of Chrome, Dropbox, Rosetta Stone Daemon, and especially any Microsoft processes, since they often are old from people running old versions of Office or even Entourage.
Thanks about the info on the keying software.  Since I moved to Pr last year,  I've not done any keying, so was unfamiliar with whether that was Adobe native or not. BCC for example, on FCP, was "native' to the package but still third party licensed so they were not built by Apple internal teams. Sony Vegas gives away New Blue, but it's buggy as heck, even though it's supposedly 'Vegas recommended', and not buildt by Vegas teams. It's more likely that any third party apps shipped with the core product have been significantly tested by the manufacturer, but that's not always the case.
One last thing that is worth a thought. I have found that crashes seem to occur more often after I've gone a long period of time using sleep mode. I often sleep my editing computer throughout the day, and sometimes even overnight. I've gone as long as 30 days in sleep mode, but found that after a crash, if I reboot the machine, that the next crash is usually a long way away, like weeks. Might be about clearing caches that are only cleared on machine reboot.  It seems to make a difference in my setup, and that's an experience over multiple machines, over multiple months.