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Dynamic link refering to wrong compostion
Hi,
I’m working on a project involving Premiere Pro and After Effects. I used Dynamic Link to compose animations and footage. But Dynamic Links is using the wrong comps. Every clip on the time-line in Premiere is showing the exact same animation. While in the project window they are all different comps.
How is that possible and how do I fix this? I already tried to unlink/link them but that didn’t work.
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My first guess as to how it happened is that you duplicated your comps in AE things got muddled — that’s happened to me before.
Regardless of how it happened, you can get back to normal fairly quickly by importing the AE comps into Premiere from scratch. Double-click in the project window, choose your AE project, then choose the comp. Use a match-frame replacement in your timeline or just match up the clips manually. Shouldn’t take more than 30 seconds per AE clip to fix.
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I have had this happen .This is how to avoid it. All your comps should be in only ONE AE project.
1. Choose clip in PrP and Replace with AE Composition. (DL)
This opens up AE
2. Choose second clip and Replace with AE Composition. (DL)The trick is when you return to editing this project (ie the next day),
select the AE DL clip on the PrP timeline and choose Edit Original. This will open the existing AE project with all your comps. If you make the mistake of selecting a new clip and Replace with AE Composition, now you have 2 AE project files with similarly numbered comps. This is where things get screwed up.
Once an AE Project exists, you should open it FIRST by highlighting an existing AE DL clip in Prp and Edit Original.Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
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1. Choose clip in PrP and Replace with AE Composition. (DL)
For clarification – I mean choose a clip in the PrP timeline.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digita / Areca 8tb. raid -
I’ve also had an issue with dynamic linking, but I was not able to resolve it:
I selected clip A, made an AE comp, saved it and it was fine.
I selected clip B, also made an AE comp. But AE or Premiere got confused after that.
When I went back to Premiere, even though both comps had different names for their .aep files and their compositions, both files read in Premire Pro as being the comp for clip A.
To be clear: both .aep files for comp A and comp B, even after I directly re-imported them into premiere, both read as comp A.
Ultimately, I had to just render the clips out of AE as the DL function refused to let me use comp B.
-mike
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It sounds like to me instead of have 2 comps in the SAME AE project…you had 2 comps and each was was in a seperate AE Project. The behavior you are describing is exactly what happens when you have MORE THAN 1 AE project. At least that has been my experience.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digita / Areca 8tb. raid
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