AE Dynamic Link Clips do not play back in Premiere

[Nathan Mcalpine]

I struggle a lot with Dynamic Link having these types of issues so I typically will export a lossless AVI from AE and bring that into my project.

My conclusion is Adobe is just clunky so you have to work around the quirks. Hopefully somebody else has a better answer but I doubt it..

Nathan McAlpine
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[Alex Udell]

Since you’ve already made the comps….

try this…

Do the render in AE and attach it to the comp as a proxy.

Now in PPro, the linked comp is still related to AE so you CAN go there and make changes, BUT…..it’s dealing with rendered DATA and not live unrendered data.

So you might have to do a timeline render in Ppro for smoothest playback…but it should be pretty painless…

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[Curt Ash]

Thanks Nathan and Alex. I’ve been monkeying around and discovered a couple things. I spent some time with the very helpful Adobe Support people who remoted into my iMac and removed a plug-in related to my blackmagic intensity extreme box that I use for monitoring. Removing those plugins helped. I could render the dynamic link clip in my timeline and it played back no problem. Unfortunately, removing those plug ins meant that my external monitoring no longer worked. So that’s not good in the end. I went to Blackmagic and downloaded the latest driver so I could get my external monitoring back. However, that re-introduced the studdery playback (even when rendered in the timeline).

One little piece of the puzzle that I didn’t share: I have an adjustment layer above all my video in the sequence. In this adjustment layer, I’ve added a timecode window burn filter so I always have a window burn in the bottom right corner of the screen. Just for kicks, I turned it off. Now I can play back the DL clips w/o any stuttering and I don’t have to render. So I guess this is a solution to my problem for now.

Do you know why an adjustment layer would cause this issue. Thank you for your help and suggestions!

[Alex Udell]

I’m not sure about the stutter…

do you need the burn in for output?

or do you like it for monitoring?

monitoring can be handled in overlay settings (wrench in program monitor)

output can be handled in effects tab of export window in ppro are AME.

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[Andrew Kimery]

Have you guys tried using the Render and Replace function in PPro?

Also I’ve heard some of the older BM drivers work better than the new ones, but unfortunately I can’t remember exactly which versions of the old ones works the best.

[Curt Ash]

Hey Alex,

Yeah, we use the TC burn for monitoring and for output. The way we’ve been doing it is a different TC Burn layer for each act. That way each act can have its own hour TC. Act 1 is 1 hr, Act 2, is 2 hr, Act 3 is 3Hr, and on. So since the show I’m working on is 10 acts, I have 10 Adjustment layers that each have a TC filter in them. I throw the appropriate layer on the top video channel, lock it, and start editing below. Sounds a little complicated, but that’s what we’ve been doing in FCP7 and we’ll continue it for a while in Premiere.

I just stumbled upon transparent layers instead of adjustment layers. I’m not sure how Premiere treats them differently, but when I add a transparent layer, my DL sequences play back just fine and I don’t have to render them.

Weird things to learn and keep track of. Thank you for your help.

[Curt Ash]

Hey Andrew,

I was having all kinds of trouble with Render and Replace, but since I’ve updated my drivers, I just tried it and it worked really well. It appears that you can go back to the AE Comp if you need to, so that’s helpful. I’ll be doing the render and replace on all my DL clips and see how it works.

[Alex Udell]

Transparent’s are just clear video with no down stack processing capabilities…

adjustment layers with nothing applied are sorta the same…

but also have the down stack image processing…

so there must be some more overhead to deal with there for sure…

glad you are on a working path…I learn as much from these discussions as I tend to spout off. 🙂

thx…

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[Justin Wonsly]

Im having the same issue. I have heavy AE files that need to be dynamically linked. Im a FCPx lover, but i started trying to to use Premier beau Im going to need to adjust at least 45 of the 55 shots a lot as i go along in the video, so i decided to Dynamic Linking was the answer. But now Im reading this it seems i may not be able to avoid re-rendering with every alteration? The way this is looking for this project I may as well just make the whole thing in AE, but that is too heavy for the mac (Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) i think? But i can’t use Premier with dynamics either?
Am i just going to have to go back to FCPx?

Thanks!