AME encoding old dynamic link clips

I've run into this issue a couple times, and it's caused some embarrassment for me with clients. I start with a title card in AE and add it to my Premiere timeline via dynamic link. My client will ask me to change the font in the title card. So I go into AE and change the font. The changes show up in the timeline in Premiere, and if I export straight from Premiere, everything goes well.
However, if I export the timeline through from Premiere through AME, the changes made to the title card in AE (and linked to Premiere) will not show up in the exported file. Instead, the old version of the title card will be exported. Any other changes made in Premiere will be exported properly, but somehow the change to the AE clips won't make it over to AME.
Any thoughts?
Adobe CC
AME version 7.2.0.43
PP 7.2.1
AE 12.2
Mac Pro 2011 (Quad Core)
OS X 10.9.1

Im haveing the same issue, Im guessing its becuase AME is using an old Premiere Project temp file, We need some way to clear thoes files out. I posted here
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6061428#6061428

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Short clips stalling and taking forever to render. Longer ones taking several hours???
I've noticed arbitrary little fixes, such as re-opening the after effects window, then going back into the premiere window causes the render to instantly speed back up in some cases.
A restart of the program I believe solves the issue too. As does simply rendering the clip out in after effects.
The problem is that I have long, overnight renders set up that need to run automatically. In this case, 9 clips, all about 30 minutes long. And pretty much all one long dynamically linked comp (I created a picture in picture effect in after effects compiling 2 30-minute video feeds, and then added some color correction). When I left at night, the total time kept creeping up and up to about 2.5 hours for one video. Even THAT sounds like a lot to me, but I let it go. I return to the computer 13 hours later, to see only 3 videos completed, and the one CURRENTLY in the queue saying over 6 hours remaining. I cancel the render.
I feel like there is some breakdown of communication between afx and premeiere happening here.
Anyone have any experience with issues like this?
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I'm on windows 7, and similar dynamic issues were a result of having two versions of the same app on the machine, and not associating the files to use the latest version, etc, or a version mismatch.
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So I'm working towards having seventeen AE compositions in a video I'm cutting with Premiere. I was chugging along just fine until most, but not all, of my clips started showing this strange diagonal line business.
When I drag the timeline over the clear areas the AR comositions look fine but things cut out over the diagonal lines and when I do a render I get what looks like the AE composition minus the odd layer.
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After some looking around the forum, I've seen it suggested that drawing from Multiple AE Projects is a bad idea - that you should have all your compositions in one AE Project to then draw from in Premiere - but have not seen any confirmation of this.
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Fuzzy Barsik wrote:
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Here's the deal, I edited four straight days on a 12 minute video, at 9:00pm last night I was going to export the video for client review this morning. Media encoder would load the file and then nothing. Now I can not proceed with the edit.
I CAN load the project, but I can NOT save the project. When I save the project it acts like it has saved fine and I can shut down PP without error but when I try to re-load it, PP hangs.
Originally, I thought it was caused by Dynamic Link as in "send to Encore" as seen here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/543512?tstart=0 so, since then I haven't used Dynamic Link, I just export a video and then load that into Encore to make a quick web version.
This time when I tried to export, I got a "ProcessServer" error as seen here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/388668?tstart=0 I shut down PP and re-started the machine and PP in hopes of continuing. I also took a look at this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/586853?tstart=0 along the way.
I can't figure out how to proceed. What is weird is that I can load and edit away on the project without any problems, it edits fine. It is only when I save the project and then try to re-open it that it will hang. Could something be corrupting it on "save"?? How can I tell? I have tried save, save as, save a copy... none work.
Vista 64, Core i7 940, nVidia QuadroFX1700, 8Gig Ram, PP CS4.2.1. It is a 24PA widescreen timeline, it is a mix of footage 29.97 DV, Widescreen 24PA DV and uncompressed graphics created in AE. Everything was either captured in PP or saved as Uncompressed out of AE. No HD, no HDV, no MPEG, etc.
The last time this happened, I just re-edited the whole video since it was short. I would prefer not to have to do that this time around.
Any ideas?
Thanks

After more testing, I found that the files that I rendered from AE are all fine. I was able to add them to a project and save, restart and render.
This leads me to believe that the project got corrupted in the process of editing or when exporting to media encoder. As I mentioned the last time this happened, I feel like there is a bug with media encoder or dynamic link that can on some occasions corrupt a project.
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>Am I just pushing the bounds of dynamic link?
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*****Edit
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****Edit
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Update.....
Problem solved.
It turns out that any dynamically linked CC apps must be run by the same user on the same machine in order to work properly. In this case, PR and AME were being run as a standard user on the workstation while AE was being run as administrator via the shortcut launch properties. The latter being necessary to have certain plugins function properly in AE CC. Modifying the AE shortcut to not run as administrator resolves dynamic linking issues.
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Hi, I've been having this same issue. Here are some additional things I've noticed about it:
Changes are reflected properly when played back on timeline in Pr CC 2014.
Happens regardless if the dynamic link file was rendered or not, thus deleting the render files does not fix the issue.
The issue can persist through saving, closing, and reopening both AE and Pr.
I'm using OSX 10.9.4, so this is not just a PC issue.
Other than manually watching for every change to be reflected in the render, there is no way to know a problem has occurred. Needless to say this can be incredibly costly.
Please address this quickly, it's completely unacceptable that what we render out could be a different version from what we see on the timeline.
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Does the issue persist through closing all CC apps, including Media Encoder.
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