Menu from After Effects to Encore has a black screen in between

I created a menu in Encore that I sent to After Effects to animate.
All is good except when I import the After Effects animated menu to Encore to link to the Encore menu a black screen appears.
How can I achieve a seamless transition?
I hope someone there knows the answer as it is driving me bonkers.
Thanks

...problem is, this error occurs when I have ONLY After Effects open. No other applications. I even shut down AE before using PP.
I could see how if there was slow import speed or freezing/crashing that this would be a processing or memory issue. I even have a processor/RAM monitor widget that doesn't show a lot going on during the composition importing/copy&pasting.
But in the process, I either get:
- a new premiere project (via dynamic link) that's blank
- a composition that will import but not open in a timeline
- copied layers from AE that are basically blank ("media disconnected" even though the media works in AE)
I'm going to take a look at a few things once I get back to my PC. Maybe I don't have some settings right.
Thanks for your help, Dave.
Anyone else have any ideas?

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