Magic Bullet Looks won't initialize in Premiere Pro CC 2018

[mcgd18]

Since upgrading to CC 2018, Magic Bullet Looks gives me a 'did not initialize properly' error while Premiere is loading (see below).

Red Giant has a blog post with an upgrade for CC 2018, which I installed as a possible fix. It changed nothing. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Premiere and Looks, but that doesn't help either.

I even tried re-downloading Premiere Pro CC 2017, and installing it along with the previous non-CC-2018 version of Looks, 13.0.2. And now it gives the same exact 'did not initialize' error as the 2018 version.

I can't find anything online about this issue online. I've submitted a trouble ticket to Red Giant, but it's been 5 days and they haven't even replied. Can anybody help with this? I have a project that I wanted to finish 2 days ago, but I'm waiting on getting Looks to work again.

Thanks.

[mcgd18]

Any suggestions at all are welcome. I'm stumped on this after 2 days of research.

[Ann Bens]

Best is to contact RG.

[mcgd18]

As stated in the OP, that's already happened.

[Ann Bens]

Sooner or later they will answer your ticket.

[mcgd18]

I'm sure they will. But I've posted here on the adobe Premiere forums to see who else may have encountered the same issue. Thanks for your input.

[debojitb63604423]

Was this solved?

[mrstylist]

It's now December 2018 and I have just had this error message come up on my system.

Has anyone had any success in trouble shooting this issue?

Cheers

[Deadgunslinger666]

As of this week (today is March 26, 2019), I have been getting this same error. To top that off, Premiere crashes just after all plugins have loaded. Has anyone who had the similar problem ever come to a resolution?