AE 2014 - ray trace 3D looks fine in edit, doesn't render depth

I am editing some 3D text and have my comp settings to use the ray trace engine. All looks good as I edit, but when I render the text is flat 2D. Attached are samples. What's going on?
This is what I see when editing in the comp window.
This is how it renders out. I've tried different formats all thru Media Encoder to no avail.
One more data point - if I use Save Frame As it renders correctly with the 3D depth.

I'm sorry that I missed that you were using AME CC 14. I would have suggested a better workflow. I may have also explored the differences between AME CC and AME CC 14. If you open the Preferences in AME 2014 you will discover that the Mercury Playback Engine in the Video Rendering section. There is no mention of this option in the help files.
The Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acdeleration (OpenCL) does not support Ray-Traced rendering so the default setting would give the expected results. The option to select a Cuda rendering option from the list gives the impression that CUDA accelerated effects would render. Software Only suggests that the GPU would no be used to accelerate rendering.
I've filed a bug on this. It's a bug if CUDA is in the list and it is not going to work. It's a bug if Software Only is in the list and software rendering worked in AME CC. It's also a bug, at least a bug in the documentation, if there is no warning given that Adobe Media Encoder will no longer support any Ray-traced rendering features. I would suggest you also file a bug on this.
In AME CC there was no such option and since the Cuda supported rendering of Ray-traced comps is only supported inside After Effects, software or CPU rendering of ray-traced comps was implemented in AME CC. Software rendering is so slow that no one I knew chose AME for rendering Ray Traced comps. The DI (digital intermediate) was used to take advantage of the GPU. To tell you the truth, 90% of my work does not benefit from MP rendering (also not supported in AME) or Ray-traced rendering. I run the AtomKraft rendering engine instead of RayTraced rendering in CC if I want to extrude text or do other quick 3D things inside AE. The AtomKraft rendering plug-in has not yet been updated to run in CC 14. I'm getting a bit off track here. What I wanted to say is that whenever I have a project that benefits directly from rendering directly inside After Effects I will render a DI. For all other work I use the AME. For my client proofs I use Vimeo Presets and upload directly to private vimeo pages for clients. For all Final renders I render an archival DI, usually with AME, then render my deliverables from AME using the DI.

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