This is what i'm using:
- iMac (late 2013)
- 3.5 GHz i7 cpu
- 32 GB ram
- 2 gb NVIDIA graphics card
- OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
- Adobe suite CC (all programs fully up to date)
- Adobe creative cloud application manager (fully up to date)
So i've made a very long video in Premiere Pro CC.
The timeline ends at 2 hours 47 mins. So it really is a long video!
When I render it out in Media Encoder it gets half-way (roughly) then crashes. Sometimes even crashing (restarting) the whole Mac.
The specs for the video are 1920x1080 25fps.
I am looking to render it out at MP4 H.264 (so I can then upload to YouTube*)... and I have been using the Media Encoder preset 'H.264 - Match Source - High bitrate'.
I have also tried pretty much all the other file export presets (MOV Animation, ProRes etc.) but still get the same crash.
I thought the footage might be the problem. The timeline is made of roughly 6 video files cut up, and they are all MP4.
So I even re-encoded each of these clips in Handbrake to convert them all to "clean" MP4 files. But I still get the same crash!
On the 'Preferences' for Media Encoder, Premiere Pro & After Effects, the 'RAM reserved for other applications' is at default (6 GB). Not sure if this is the issue?
Or am I getting this crash because the video length is just too long? Maybe Media Encoder has a 2 hour limit or something?
Or is my Mac overheating for some reason?
I've already searched online for similar problems but found nothing.
And I know one of the typical responses is "Try updating your software to the latest", but I assure you I already have.
*YouTube has an upload limit of 128 GB / 11 hours.
Regards,
Josh