Bug Report: Using Crop Edges Effect in After Effects Causes AME Error Code 1609629695

After several hours of troubleshooting repeated failures to render an AE project in AME , I was able to narrow down the culprit by turning off and on each layer and then each effect within that layer: any instance of the crop edges effect or its subsidiaries (crop bottom, crop top, etc) in your composition or inside of a pre-comp will cause a failure to render in AME with error code 1609629695. I attempted to render with software only (no GPU) and several different formats with no success, I was only able to suceed by disabling Crop Edges.

Specs: Mac Os Big Sur 11.1 running on a 2013 (Trashcan Style) Mac Pro, 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5, 64 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, AMD Fire Pro D300

AE version 17.6.0 Build 46

AME version 14.8 Build 31