Heres what makes the least sense in all of this Joe, it always crashes at a point in the render than has no 3rd party plug ins, just a few plug ins used to make a transition that occurs over two adjustment layers.
I will have to keep at it and see if your advice about looking for the frame it freezes in the preview, hopefully I can figure this out, the only thing I can think, which has just come to me is that the motion blur that i turned onn on the adjustment layers might bne causing, if i remember rightly the transition uses AE’s motion blur but idk I can try disabling it to see if it renders but then how do i render it with the motion blur if that turns out to be the issue