Premiere pro cs6 mac import failure prores and dnxhd says unsupported format or damaged file

Hi All,
I'm running OSX Mavericks and have avchd footage imported into my project.  It's all rendered out.  I'm making an intermediate file and have tried dnxhd and prores formats.  When I created a new project and tried to import either format I get the error above.  Also, when trying to play the prores file with quicktime it won't play.  I have a Windows virtual machine with an older version of premier pro that has neat video.  I've created dnxhd file on it and was able to import the file into PP on the mac and process them int h.264 movies.  What do you think is causing the error to not be able to import either format on my mac?  Could there be an error on the export in media encoder?
Mark

It looks like I solved my own problem and wanted to post the resolution.  Apparently, the Avid codecs don't play nice with Quicktime on a Mac and cause Adobe QT32 Server to crash.  Even though a file was made, with QT32 Server crashing it was unreadable.  The first thing I did was to remove all of the codecs in MacHD/Library/Quicktime.  I restarted my computer.  Then I added back the Apple codecs.  Voila, I can now encode to Prores.  I tried to add back the Avid dn codec only, and I had the same problem.  I tried version 2.3.7 and 2.3.9 without success.  Looks like I wont' be able to encode  any DNXHD files, and reading my existing ones will require adding the codec, exporting to a non-quicktime format and then removing the codec for any future prores encoding.  If anyone has a solution to get Avid DNXHD codec working please let me know. 

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