My Live Type Templates seem Corrupted

Many of the objects, effects, etc. look corrupted or simply freeze the program when selected. The corrupted files, instead of showing me a preview of the effect, have a green pixelated square over them, except for at the top its black. Not all of my effects or objects are like this though, only the majority.
Also, when I select some object categories, Live Type Freezes all together and I have to force quit.
I'm thinking I need to reinstall Livetype, but it came pre-installed with my computer and I don't remember seeing the Live Type disc... if there was one, I don't have it.
Is there another way to fix this?

I often see the green preview thumbnail, however, if I play the clip in the Finder it displays normally and the templates work in LiveType.
To your freezing issue, perhaps the description fits [this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1392289&tstart=0] (it's huge, sorry). There are some possible solutions towards the end.
If you purchased Final Cut Studio or Final Cut Express, you should most certainly have the discs for it.

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I have tried different combinations of having After Effects open or closed, with the live text template comp open or closed; I can't consistently reproduce the problem with any certainty and so am having trouble pinpointing the source.
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I've only had this happen so far with AME renders. The renders out of PP haven't given me any issues so far.
It might happen more frequently on longer segments? If a title is up for 45 sec instead of 10 sec, it may be more likely to pop.
The issue seems to occur more often in batch renders out of AME (happened to 3 of 5 files rendered in a batch, AME 2014.1) and/or with unrelated AE comps open (on a single render from AME 2014.2)
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Would be nice to get to the bottom of what's happening so I can recommend something to the editors when I hand off these live text templates to them.
I realize that the live text is a new feature as of 2014.1, but haven't found anyone else talking about this. Would love if this was a very simple fix that I'm missing.
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I'm running into flash frames with Media Encoder exports of Premiere sequences using the live text templates.
Unfortunately, AME doesn't flag it as an error, so the render completes without any issues in the render log and the only way to find it is to watch the rendered file.
I have tried different combinations of having After Effects open or closed, with the live text template comp open or closed; I can't consistently reproduce the problem with any certainty and so am having trouble pinpointing the source.
My only hypotheses so far are that:
The glitches seem to be happening in the dynamic link between AME and PP, not AE and PP. The live text will pop back to the duplicated comp's text for one frame. Video playing simultaneously doesn't pop.
In other words, the AE text template said: "name here". In PP it was edited to say "John Doe", then that comp was duplicated and edited to say "Bob Smith". Everything looks fine in PP. There are no keys on the source text in AE (I have noticed that if there are keys on the source text in AE, the text will pop back to the original AE text at that key in PP).
When rendered out of AME, halfway through Bob Smith's title, it will read "John Doe" for a single frame, then pop back to being Bob.
I've only had this happen so far with AME renders. The renders out of PP haven't given me any issues so far.
It might happen more frequently on longer segments? If a title is up for 45 sec instead of 10 sec, it may be more likely to pop.
The issue seems to occur more often in batch renders out of AME (happened to 3 of 5 files rendered in a batch, AME 2014.1) and/or with unrelated AE comps open (on a single render from AME 2014.2)
Again, it doesn't happen every time or to the same title, or in the same spot. Files are being rendered to ProRes 422 HQ. Unchecked "Use Previews" in AME.
Would be nice to get to the bottom of what's happening so I can recommend something to the editors when I hand off these live text templates to them.
I realize that the live text is a new feature as of 2014.1, but haven't found anyone else talking about this. Would love if this was a very simple fix that I'm missing.
I was able to reproduce the error on 2 different machines, with similar specs:
Premiere CC 2014.1 and 2014.2
Media Encoder CC 2014.1 and 2014.2
Mac tower 2010
2x 6-core Intel Xeon
RAM: 64 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 and NVidia Quadro K5000 (or K4000)
OS: 10.8.5 Mountain Lion

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Hi jbonante
Despite its name, LiveType does more than just manipulate text and create title cards.
If you do a search of YouTube, you will many interesting examples of how LT has been used, for example one I did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt99U9JnQcQ
Do you really need After Effects, Motion etc for what you are trying to create?
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