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AE linked files in PP – constant rendering
Recently switched workflow to Premiere Pro. At first I was really digging the ability to work in my after effects projects and have them instantly updated in Premiere Pro without having to render, export and import. However, as my After Effects projects have gotten heavier, they can’t be previewed without being rendered, and when something minor in the timeline changes like a Paste Insert of a new clip at the start of the sequence is added, all of the .aep clips in Premiere’s timeline loose their rendered status … and rerendering that all now is about 4 hours and climbing. Is there a way to bake or hold a .aep linked file in a Premiere sequence in a current rendered status so that it stays as is until the link is reestablished?
Thanks.
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Another problem I’ve found with lots of heavy .aep files linked in a Premiere sequence is that when I track select, it takes several seconds of holding the mouse button down before everything selected actually moves. Surely there must be a more manageable way to work with linked .aep files in PP than this, no?
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There’s been a lot of discussion about this…
one of my methods is to:
set Proxy in AE and render there, at full res….
that PPro essentially sees the AE project as single video clip…
renders should be a lot less heavy…
Other ppl don’t dynamic link, but rather redner and replace in PPro…using the XMP project link options in AE….
Alex Udell
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Thanks, Alex. It’s still surprising that Adobe hasn’t as of yet addressed a better integrated workflow to deal with this. For me it makes Premiere a lot less attractive.
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Hey Brad….
I’m curious….
what version of AE/PPro are you using?
If CS6….
How is your Global Performance (disk) Cache set up in AE?
Alex Udell
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Thanks, Alex. I’ve started transitioning my aep files over to proxy renders. I’m setting a proxy for the sequence at best settings. When that is rendered, it then adds the proxy box next to the sequence. Is there a way to setup these renders of the proxy files so that they are rendered out of Adobe Media Encoder so that I can continue working on a different after effects sequence while the proxy renders in the background?
I just switched my disk cache over to a 240 GB SSD drive.
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Yes, on CS6.
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Hi Brad…
Why I’m curious….
is that if you Cache Preview in AE (using GPC) then that’s (in theory) what PPro ought to be looking at when rendering…. so if you see a blue bar in AE on the seq (this is from my memory not user experience) then should be reading cache off the disk and this is essentially the same as the manual set proxy method.
to answer your other question…
If you Drag an AE project to AME…
then you can set batch renders of all the comps…
once rendered…you could then re-open the AE project and connect the AME renders as Proxies to the originating comps…
AE CC (as I’ve seen on Adobe’s site demo) will allow you to AME render right from AE…
does that help?
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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