Premiere Pro not responding during rendering

[Banzai]

I've got some vacation video edited and ready to put on DVD. So I selected: File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder and selected a file to save it to. I noticed that it is a 2 pass process to save the movie to my HD. The first pass took about 5 hours for 200K+ frames and seemed to go fine. The second pass made it to about 150K frames and then just stopped. This is the second time I've tried to do this with the same result. The first time was last night as I slept so I didn't get to see how long it took.

Anyone know why this is happening? I basicly have to cancel the rendering process and ctrl+alt+delete to get out of Pro.

[Banzai]

Should I just export directly to DVD instead? Why or why not?

[lapaz]

i just had a similar experience: Premiere Pro was rendering a 100 minute DV movie into MPEG2, using 2pass vbr, and after 6 hours, near the end of the second pass, my PC crashed: i got the Windows XP blue screen ('kernal data inpage error').
Anybody who has a clue what could cause these crashes or how to prevent them?

FYI: i am using a P4 2.6 PC with 512Mb ram

[lapaz]

Banzai: i could solve my problem by not using an external harddisk for rendering & saving. Hope this helps