Anybody having trouble with PNG's with the new Update of Premier Pro 2018 April 3rd?

Yes me too.  Just posted my own gripe when I came across this thread.  Adobe, you'd better get this fixed in hours, not days.  Major screw up.  Timeline a disaster.  Image freezes, unwanted graphics on certain parts of the timeline.  Flashing everywhere. FIX IT NOW!!

As of the April 2018 update, on a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.13.3, Premiere selects random PNG images from an imported folder to display, rather than the specified image placed in the timeline. Others display with artifacting. PNG files in exported video @24FPS, mp4, 1080p flicker-- similar to what might happen if there were a framerate issue (which can't be the case as the project is just a bunch of PNG files scrolling across the screen).

I can't reproduce this in version 12.1 on Windows 10 Pro (1709).  My PNGs, all saved out of Photoshop, both with and without alpha, work correctly.

Yes! Having the exact same issue for this show I'm cutting. The update is terrible! I tried everything you've tried and no resolution with the new update. I reverted back to the previous Premiere Pro version, and all is good again.

Yes. This is terrible.

Guys, after spending 1:45 minutes with Tech support, we find out is an error in the code, and the need to throw it back to the engineering department to fix this bug. They told me to wait at least 5 days. DO NOT UPDATE! spread the word, many people are having the same problem with AE. Like always they rushed the program for NAB to showcase the new features when clearly IT WAS NOT READY! now we are stuck here wasting our time.

WORK AROUND:

I save whatever edit I have and exported a XML file (Final Cut Export) then I DOWNGRADED to the previous version of Premier, Open a new project and imported the XML !! everything works on my timeline and I can import PNG's like always. No stupid work around.

TO THE ADOBE INTERN READING THIS!!

PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM!!!

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My 15 sec. project with two png files cannot be exported because updated Premiere crashes on export media. Yesterday similar project didn't cause problems. Solution to reinstall old version seems to be very time consuming, I am upset...

Yeah, this is just one of the problems I'm having today. Updating this application was not a very good idea. I have already spent too much time today figuring out how to get it to launch, and then this?

(edit)

This fixed the problem (for me so far):

I toggled the v tracks on and off, moved the pngs in the timeline a few frames; I deleted the media caches, saved, quit, rebooted and relaunched.

Mine is doing it as well.  In Photoshop it is completely transparent...import it in and blammo i have some random video still in purple layered into the PNG.

Really messed me up cause I was working on something that needed to be done almost immediately after the update.  Only way I got it to work was to import the PSD and it worked fine.  But they need to fix the PNG import immediately.

is it a Photoshop Problem or a Premier/After Effects Problem, not sure do to the fact all of the products Updated last night... this is complete BS!!! They need to fix this ASAP I have a big deadline and I cant export this garbage.