Problems with Exporting
 

I am getting problems of crashing when trying to Export when using Premiere CS5's Export Settings. I wonder if deleting the preferences would help ? How do I reset the preferences in Adobe Premiere CS5 ?

Re: Problems with Exporting
 

You hold down the shift key while starting Premiere, but I don't think this would help.

Do you get the crashes at exactly the same time while exporting? If so, then perhaps there is a problem with a certain clip, you can try disabling it - see if it helps. Can you render the timeline first without problems, or do you also get crashes while rendering?

What export settings do you use?

How much memory do you have? Premiere Pro is very hungry for RAM. How about your drives configuration?

Also, do you use any 3rd party monitoring hardware (BlackMagic, AJA, Matrox)?

Sorry about so many questions, but these are more likely the culprits, than PPro preferences.

Re: Problems with Exporting
 

Hi Bart,

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I have no problem when working on the timeline or while rendering. It's when I click on Export after adjusting the Export Settings options. It seems to happen whatever I am exporting be it MP4 to .Mov, HD to HD, or HD to SD. I have plenty of RAM and the crashes have only just started to happen. I am thinking of a System Restore if, as you suspect, a simple trashing of prefs will have little effect.

Re: Problems with Exporting
 

Weird. If you click "queue", do you also get crashes, when Adobe Media Encoder handles the encoding?

You can trash the preferences, it's much less painful than with FCP. If it doesn't work I would suggest reinstalling the suite with the "repair" option instead of system restore though. It looks like some file might have been accidentally deleted or corrupted. Also, run a check disk on your system drive, to make sure that there are no problems with the drive itself.