Media encoder shows timeline as "footage offline" help?

so i just reformatted my HD, and loaded on windows 8.1 last night,. i got CC 2014 installed again. so i import some avchd footage into PrPro, set up a new timeline, and i edit teh gfootage, looks fine. choose to export, i am able to see the preview in the export setting window, choose "queue" and when it bounces to media encoder cc 2014, the footage is now mysteriously offline. but it is not. because it was never offline to begin with. what gives? if i choose to just export in PrPro, it encodes fine. but for some reason, the bouncing to Media Encoder introduces problems. any solutions?

I've just had this same error. All the media is present in the timeline. All of the media is on the local hard drive. Scrubbing through the timeline shows no offline media. Scrubbing through the timeline in the export window also shows no offline media. Yet final render finishes with a warning that "Offline media has been rendered using the "media offline graphic"."
Not really sure what's going on here.

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