Can Premiere Pro pre-render imported After Effects Compositions at full, completely lossless resolution? (CC)

[Walter Soyka]

[Andrew Brown] “When one creates a new sequence in Premiere, and sets the preview settings, it seems the only available settings are compressed in some fashion.”

If you choose Custom as your preview setup, you can choose some manner of uncompressed preview file.

[Andrew Brown] “Let’s say I have a Premiere project, with 10 After Effects compositions in the timeline. Let’s say those AE compositions would take, within AE, a long time to render. Is it possible, within Premiere, to have Premiere render those compositions and cache the result somewhere, but in full, lossless resolution? The same quality as a lossless quicktime in Animation codec rendered from After Effects?”

Pr will not render these comps faster than Ae, and in fact may render them more slowly because Dynamic Link does not use multiprocessing.

If you are using Ae CS6 or higher and have the disk cache enabled, you could open each comp and Composition > Cache Work Area in the Background. This will render in the background and cache the rendered frames. When Pr asks dynamic link for the frames from the AEP, they’ll be returned from the disk cache instead of recalculated.

You could also render full-quality proxies for the sequences in Ae, and Pr via DL will honor those if enabled in Ae.

Walter Soyka
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