Premiere Pro CC not creating preview files?

Hi there,
I'm working on a project in CC 2014 and when I play a timeline, I either get 'media pending', a black screen or some strange lines as if only a few frames of the clip have properly rendered. When I try to render the timeline, I get "Error compiling movie: unknown error". There are also no preview files in the project preview file folder (despite that folder being the allocated folder for preview files).
I've tried importing the sequence into a new project and the same issues carry on.
Any ideas?
Happy to provide any more info to help!
Cheers

As the faq for all the Adobe forums notes, it's handy, useful, and basically polite to start by noting your computer's specs: OS, chip/cores, RAM, video card/s/vRAM, disk setup, and also the specific software build you're using (to the dot-x level) as quite often this data gives a big heads-up to the answer of a question to start with. Next, it's also useful to give your codec/s, frame-size, and a hint of experience level and whether or not this is the first time you've tried something or whether you've done it for only 10 years a million times but THIS time it fritzed for some reason.
I can help with basic things but before anyone else even more helpful than moi can help ... they'll need more info.
Neil

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