Media Encoder stops working and I get the goat.

Question

I have downloaded the latest update for Media Encoder CC 2014 8.0.1.48.
All day I have had hit and miss success when encoding. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it will fail and I get the goat sound. I hate the goat sound.
This has only happened since this latest update.... and today to be exact. And it has happened on two different work stations - both with the same software installed.
Has anyone else fielded this issue and if so, what can I do? Everything is the exact same as it was the
day before this update.
I am an adobe CC Subscriber. I have Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop and Encoder installed.
So far I have had failed encodes with Mpeg 2 and H.264.
I do have third party transitions installed, Film Impact 1 and 2, but as mentioned before. They have never caused an issue before.
Please help, I have a very busy football season coming up in less than 3 weeks and I can't have this issue then.
Thank you,
Virgil
juniperspride.com

Answer 1

Source is either Mpeg2 or .MTS files. I'm using Windows Professional.
My settings regarding Mpeg2 are basically Match Source High Bitrate, except that I change it
to CBR 18.5 bitrate.
Here are the error messages I've gotten on the computer:
- Encoding Time: 00:00:02
07/29/2014 07:01:24 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
- Encoding Time: 00:00:02
07/29/2014 07:01:58 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
- Encoding Time: 00:00:02
07/29/2014 07:12:00 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
- Source File: C:\Users\Virgil\AppData\Local\Temp\TLN Encoder_4.prproj
- Output File: G:\Z Output for WIL S2 Ep2\WIL008_080614.mpg
- Preset Used: TLN
- Video: NTSC, 720x480, 29.97 fps, Upper, Quality 100
- Audio: MPEG Audio, 256 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo, 16 bit
- Bitrate: CBR, Target 8.00 Mbps
- Encoding Time: 00:00:48
07/29/2014 07:14:13 PM : Encoding Failed
The Operation was interrupted by user
- Source File: C:\Users\Virgil\AppData\Local\Temp\TLN Encoder_4.prproj
- Output File: G:\Z Output for WIL S2 Ep2\WIL008_080614.mpg
- Preset Used: TLN
- Video: NTSC, 720x480, 29.97 fps, Upper, Quality 100
- Audio: MPEG Audio, 256 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo, 16 bit
- Bitrate: CBR, Target 8.00 Mbps
- Encoding Time: 00:00:48
07/29/2014 07:14:13 PM : Encoding Failed
The Operation was interrupted by user
- Encoding Time: 00:00:53
07/29/2014 07:17:38 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
- Encoding Time: 00:00:32
07/29/2014 07:54:02 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
- Encoding Time: 00:00:30
07/29/2014 07:56:05 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.