Premiere Pro CC 2014 Stalls Midway Through Render

Question

I've recently added the CC 2014 suite to my computer, and for the most part it's good and solid.  However, whenever I try to output a file from Premiere Pro CC 2014, either as a direct export or via Media Encoder, the program simply stops rendering midway through the process.  It doesn't actually freeze up or fail to respond, as I can easily stop the render altogether without having to resort to task manager.  It simply stops as any random point and then the estimated render time begins to climb, and it doesn't stop climbing.  It doesn't matter what settings I use, custom or preset, MOV, MP4, AVI...h.264, mpeg...codec or container does not matter.  The results are the same.  I even tried changing the Preview File Format, nothing different there either.  Tried a complete uninstall/re-install (made sure to use the cleaner tool).  No luck.
As someone who relies pretty heavily on NLE's to cover his freelance work, this is pretty disconcerting.  For now, my only fix was to step back to the previous version of CC, but I don't view that as a long term solution.  Anyone have any ideas?
For clarity, here are my system specs:
Motherboard: Asus Z97-Pro
CPU:  Intel i7 4790k (with Corsair H110 Liquid Cooler)
RAM: G.Skill Ares series 1866 - 32GB
GPU: EVGA GTX 780 - 3GB
Primary Drive: Intel 335 Series SSD - 240GB

Answer 1

You say it stops at random points every time. Are they really random, or is it at the same general area on your timeline? There may be a piece of media there that is preventing it from finishing. This has happened to us several times throughout our editing process for our documentary and it is almost always a image file that causes this issue. Generally replacing it or converting it to another format will help in our case.