Please do a quick test for me (PC), thank you very much

Question

Hi there fellow Premiere Pro CC2014 users.
in relation to this earlier discussion (PremierePro PC 8.2.0 (65) replace footage causes error "The importer reported a generic error")
Could someone please do me huge a favor and test this simple set up?
create a premiere project
create a sequence
create a black video or color matte
right click the black video or color matte source item in the project bin area  (not the timeline)
Choose "replace footage" and pick any AE project .aep file you have.
If the feature works as I should, then a window should open showing the content of the AE project (comps)
if you on the other hand get a "the importer has generated a generic error" window pop up, then the feature is broken and have been so for a while (maybe since CC 6).
Please write your result back here. Thank you and happy holidays

Answer 1

Thank you for doing the test.
Let me explain why this I call this a severe bug then.
The work flow I describe here is just to keep the test as simple as possible to ease the workload of people willing to do the actual test. So please ignore the black video setup in it self.
Here is the real work flow where this feature is crucial for effeiciancy.
I make 3D animations and have been doing so for many years.
The way I usually produce a animation is that I set up animation clips / layers in 3DSMax and render out quick png viewport preview files for fast and efficient editing in premiere.
Once I am satisfied with the final cut of the animation in its preview state in general, I submit the animation layers from 3DSMax to the renderfarm to have it render out the final frames as .exr files.
As the individual animation clips / layers begin to emerge on the network, I am ready to do the Post Production part of the animation production.
And since post production work, masking, filtering, effects and stuff is much more suited for AfterEffects I import every final rendered animation clip / layer into AE and do post work on the individual clip.
Here is where the Bug is introduced!
As the clips are completed in AE, I begin to replace the preview clips in Premiere with the comps coming from the AE to finalize the project.
The way I used to replace the clips in Premiere, were by right clicking the individual preview sources in the Premiere project bin, Right click them and choose "Replace footage".
The reason why I am doing it this way compared to other replace methods, is that this is the only way the already edited clips in the timeline keeps their In/Out and freeze frame settings. Using any other replace method resets the clip, so all previous in/out, freeze frame settings are lost, meaning I would more or less have to reconstruct the entire timeline once more as I replaced the clips one by one.
Of cause I could just render out the comps from AE as uncompressed Avi sequences, but then I loose the benefit of the dynamic link workflow that these tools promote them self by.
I hope this has throw some light on the predicament and shows why it's extremely annoying that this bug has been introduced since version CC 2014.
Thank you : )