Dynamic Link caches keep going…

[Steven L. gotz]

This is a recently discovered issue over on the Adobe forums. If any comp in the AE project is changed, then the renders disappear in Premiere Pro for all of the comps. Premiere Pro detects that the AE project has changed, not just one comp, the project itself.

The solution is to have one comp per project. That way changing one comp will not cause any other comp to need rerendering.

[Dickij]

Thanks for the quick reply.
I’m not sure I’d be able to get my head around having lots of AE projects, one each effects clip in my edit, especially if I’d want them all to contain very similar elements.
Do you think Adobe will be addressing this at some point? It’s very nearly a great way to work but not quite!
Thanks again
Jamie

[Paul King]

Agreed

You need to be able to select comps to import instead or projects.

However this will not solve using AE to despeck film. Everytime you add a brush stroke to the clip further down the TL, the earlier work will go unrendered in Premiere, which is workflow negative.

Paul

[Steven L. gotz]

It is a problem. But just “Save As” instead of creating a new comp. Or, just don’t render so often in Premiere Pro. After all, most video will play OK without rendering anyway. And you already saw it at full resolution in AE, right?

[Dickij]

Thanks, these maybe quite good work-arounds. I still think it’ll be a nightmare to work like that, compared to a single integrated piece of software where you can access and alter nested effects properly!

I thought an alternative way might be to render in AE and use ‘Edit Original’ if you need to tweak things after you’ve put the clip into Premiere. Trouble is that ‘Edit Original’ opens Windows Media Player instead of After Effects! I’m using BlackMagic .avi’s. Any thoughts on that one anybody!?

Thanks again
Jamie

[Jeff Bellune]

If you output from AE as an .avi file, then you can’t use AE as the target of Edit Original. AE knows how to open AE project files, not .avi files. AE imports .avi files, but it does not open and load them like WMP or Audition. Premiere and Encore won’t do it, either.

I know this may be simplistic and obvious, but I have to ask anyway. How do you organize your comps inside of the AE project that you are using? Have you tried organizing a series of AE projects insided of a folder in Windows the same way? The Windows folder would play the part of the AE project, and the AE projects would take on the role of the comps in the current project. If not ideal, it would certainly help you with the organizational details until Adobe changes the way that rendered previews are handled in Dynamic Link.

-Jeff

[Dickij]

So what you’re saying is that Edit Original won’t work with .avi’s even (when you use Embed Project Link when you render)

[Jeff Bellune]

[dickij] “So what you’re saying is that Edit Original won’t work with .avi’s even (when you use Embed Project Link when you render)

[Dickij]

OK. I’ll have to look into that. Good news if it is at least supposed to work!
Cheers