Is anyone else getting unusable results when trying to use the Media Replace option in an EG template they have created in AE? Anyone having trouble with videos getting output as stills frames?
This is a first for me.
At a facility I work at, I'm the person who makes Graphics packages for other editors to use on a slew of various projects that we produce. I've been using EG templates for this to create branded lower third names keys etc for a long time, since before EG was created actually.
I've been cautiously dabbling in media replace options since it was introduced in Beta years ago, but have had too many issues with it. Several years passed and I thought I'd try again, and I'm reporting the errors I've encountered here.
I used AE placeholders (missing footage import) set to UHD 4k and built 2 templates around them, and then tried to use them for media replacement in an exported mogort.
At a certain point in adding footage within Premiere to the imported EG template , I realized that for some reason certain video elements were getting output as stills ( in one instance, and yet playing back fine in another -as pictured below)
Here is a link to the Mogort in question, which is a v2 that includes a tiny h.265 UHD Placeholder file I made the last time I was debugging Media replace. It didnt resolve this current issue.

Also fun to report is that the "Render and Replace" option produced a different image than the seq/render - The video clip did not render at all, but was blank. (There is no transparency on the video placeholder layers, and so it's not a premultiplied alpha on an RGB file issue)
I'm running CC 23.3 in Premiere and AE, on Windows 10 Enterprise, 64G Ram, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
Cheers.