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adobe dynamic link rendering hassle
Hello everybody,
I’m just finishing up the edit on a project and I wanted to take a minute to ask the Creative Cow community about a problem that I encountered. This project was the first time that we tried out the Adobe Dynamic Link feature in Premiere Pro CS5 and for the most part it worked great.
Our workflow was as follows:
Shot on the Red MX and transcoded to ProRes 4444. Edited in Adobe Premiere CS5 on a Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon w/ 2.8 GHz Processor Speed and 8 GB of Memory.Effects were done in Adobe After Effects on an iMac in the same room and moved wirelessly to my computer’s public folder. I would use Adobe Dynamic Link to import his AE Comps and then lay them over the edited ProRes.
I’m happy to say that this worked near perfectly. Two issues that I wanted to find out if anybody had run into and/or solved:
-Whenever I would quit Premiere, everything in the timeline would un-render. Huge pain.
-From what I heard, if the effects were changed, they would update in my timeline automatically, but I would have to quit Premiere and restart it in order for them to update, thus having to render everything again.If anyone can comment I would really appreciate it because this workflow is worth using it again.
Thanks,
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First off, the preview files becoming unlinked from the project on a Mac usually has something to do with where you’re having those files written (what drive/directory, etc) and what permissions the application has to make changes on that drive…
Dynamic link works on one machine and knows when files are being worked on and altered, automatically update when you make changes.
In the workflow you describe, the AE comps you are bringing into your projects are being altered on the iMac and PPro on your edit machine has no “link” to the project being changed on the fly as the dynamic link server isn’t managing data across two machines, so if you keep PPro open while you bring over another AE project revision, PPro sees it as a new file, not an alteration to the existing file.
As you found out, all you can do is shut down PPro and relaunch with the new file replacing the old one in name and location.
However, even if you were making those changes on the same machine, an AE comp that PPro rendered as a preview woulod certainly have to re-render once you made changes…it’s an AE comp. You have to render it someplace, you’re just trading rendering the comp in PPro for rendering it in AE.
In your situation, you’d probably be as well served by just rendering the files out of the iMac as Dynamic Link doesn’t help you with any “live” updating in your workflow.
Being able to load the AE comps in your situation just means that now you have to wait for the render on your video edit machine vs have the effects render “offline” on the machine doing the AE work, allowing the edit machine to keep “editing”.
Unfortunately you get all the drawbacks and none of the gains in productivity using dynamic link in the way you describe.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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