AE dynamic link not working in premiere pro

[Jon Barrie]

Did you try to reconnect all the AE projects fiels again too?

As this was not provided on a HDD with an assigned letter to the drive the project and assets are not in the same place (Drive and Letter for that drive) as the original.

You might need to get all the assets Linked for the AE project and save. Then go to the PPro project and unlink and relink the AE DL comps. Then the AE comps you are DL with ‘should’ have the assets linked and show up in PPro.

When a project is shared in this manner and the project files are Zipped, a complete unzip is paramount and necessary. Then assigning the Drive letter to the same drive it was made on will avoid any future problems like this.

Keep in mind the PPro project has lost connection with all its assets including where the DL AE projects are and then the AE comps themselves has lost the connection to their assets too.

Working with AE first and then PPro and the DLs is the way to work this out.

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
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[Guy Yang-ting]

Hey Jon,

Thanks for you reply!

I’m not sure I understand it all.

“You might need to get all the assets Linked for the AE project and save”: the AE project has all it’s assets in place and works well in AE, so I presume I have nothing to do for this step, right?

“Then go to the PPro project and unlink and relink the AE DL comps.”: how do you unlink an AE comp in PPro? To re-link, I presume I’d use “link media. Please confirm.

Thanks,
Guy

[Jon Barrie]

Sorry. I wrote the last post late at night. Must remember to not do that too much. 🙂

Yes. You are right. If ae projects used have got all assets working, just get the ones in PPro to link.

If at the worst case scenario re DL the comps as new imports and replace them in the timeline with the offline versions.

I’ll make a tutorial about it over the weekend to help others out there. 🙂

JB

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[Guy Yang-ting]

Hello Jon,

I tried re-importing the AE comps in the PPro master file. No luck:
– The AE comps are imported; but…
– … once inside I cannot put them in a sequence by replacing (using the alt key)
– I can’t even create a new seq with the comp (by dragging and dropping it on the “New Item” icon)
– The only thing I can do is the “Automate to Sequence” button to put the comp in a sequence, but…
– … in the seq timeline, I can’t move the seq around, even though it’s not locked.

So the problem is definitely coming from the AE file.
What makes this file behave so differently from other AE files I use.
It works fine when opened in AE, but has the above behavior in PPro. Really strange.

Any idea?

I called Adobe and they would not help solve this. That’s their policy, as they consider this as a normal behavior of the app! (The employee over the phone did recognize that was a strange policy)

Many thanks for your help in this!
Guy

[Jon Barrie]

can you try to make a new project and import the old project.
Then try to replace with the AE comp…

Sounds like the project file got corrupted. 🙂

– JB

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[Guy Yang-ting]

Thanks Jon,

Just tried that and it’s not working.
I imported the AE project in a new file, named it differently, left it in the same folder.

The new AE file opens well and the comps seem to work fine in it.
I can import a comp in a brand new PPro file, but…
– I can’t create a new seq with the comp (by dragging and dropping it on the “New Item” icon)
– The only thing I can do is the “Automate to Sequence” button to put the comp in a sequence, but…
– … in the seq timeline, I can’t move the seq around, even though it’s not locked.

Same thing as before. I imported a comp from another AE file to make sure that was not coming from my set up. That comp is working just fine.

So it’s definitely the way that first AE file is set up that creates the problem.

I need to find what creates that issue to have my contractor change that thing on his side; before sending me the file.
I don’t see what settings to consider though.
If you have an idea, that would be great!

Thanks again,
Guy

[Jon Barrie]

It is very strange behaviour.

How about opening a new AE project and importing the old one?

The DL that one into the “new” PPro project that imported the old project?

– JB

You could also just export the AE comp and import the clip, make a duplicate of the sequence with the DL and rename the duplicate sequence with ‘_AErenders” and just replace the DL clips with the exported clips. If they are giving you grief with replacement (really odd that is happening) try making that clip offline and then do the replace with… feature.

Let me know – JB

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[Guy Yang-ting]

Hello Jon,

just to let you know, I changed the process and let down dynamic links. Now I render the comps from AE using quicktime and keeping the alpha chanel.

I edit the animations in PPro if it’s just for time stretching and for more involved anims, I go back to AE, make the changes and re-render what I need. It’s more tedious, but DLs do not feel stable enough when files are exchanged from one computer to the another.

I do continue to use DLs though, only when I create a project on my computer and that project will not go on any other computer.

Thanks a lot for your help, really appreciate!
Guy