• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Media offline after closing After Effects CS4

  Posted by Lee Coward on November 24, 2010 at 5:17 pm

  Hi folks,

  Not sure which side of the fence this belongs on so we’ll start here. I’m attempting to create a PIP composition in After Effects for use in Premiere Pro and am having a frustrating issue. After creating the comp and placing in Premiere, all is well. However, as soon as I close After Effects, the comp goes “media offline”.

  There will be a number of these PIPs in the final product and I’ve managed to get 1 of them to ‘stick’ … don’t know why that one works though. When I attempt to manually link the problematic composition back to the AE file, the comps presented in the link dialog are from the one PIP which is working but exist in a *different* AE file. If I launch AE and open the ‘broken’ project the correct comps will be shown in the link dialog.

  I’ve tried 3 different ways to come at this and keep ending up in a spot where the comp is only live in Premiere when AE is open. The 3 methods I have tried are “Replace footage with After Effect comp”, creating a new comp then copy/pasting from Premiere timeline into After Effects and creating a new comp then importing the footage.

  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

  Lee

  Lee Coward replied 15 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrew Devis

  November 26, 2010 at 8:23 pm

  Is there any reason you’re not doing the pip in premiere pro?

  Andrew

  … because it’s all about stories …
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  Lee Coward

  November 27, 2010 at 6:37 pm

  The PIPs are to simulate a video feed to a submarine. Video is placed inside an industrial looking monitor graphic and I want the reception to appear a bit dodgy at points. Working with the various noise and distortion effects in AE seemed a better choice.

  While I would still like to understand the offline behavior previously described, I decided to render the individual PIPs as lossless with alpha from AE then drop then into Premiere. Workflow now looks like:

  1) choose the subclip in Premiere and choose ‘replace with AE comp’
  2) create the composition in AE
  3) render to lossless avi with alpha
  4) import avi into Premiere

  The PIP footage isn’t very long (< 30 seconds) so render time is minimal.

  Regards,
  Lee

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