I’m so sorry, Hal. Render issues are the worst, and btw, still happen all the time in newer software!

I had to re-export TLJ from premiere several times for V2 because the software kept hanging at the same spot. I had to guess which shot out of a 2+ hour movie was causing it based on the % through the render where it crashed. Eventually figured out it didn’t like that I had a blending mode turned on one particular layer. Not sure why, I hadn’t changed the shot or updated the software since V1, but it would crash every single time.

In an ideal world we could render everything to image sequences so we don’t lose hours of rendering during a crash, but that take a ton of extra hard drive space and are harder to encode.

I hope your computer starts to cooperate!