Dynamic Link in workgroup environments?

[Alex Udell]

How do you make the AE comp?

“Replace with AE Comp”

or

Copy in PPro then Paste in AE?

Alex

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Sounds like 2 questions. “Replace with AE comp” seems to refer to working in Pr, while “Copy in PPro & paste in AE” sounds like work in AE. I did neither – though I should have tried “Replace with AE comp” – that’s probably what I was doing wrong in PR.

Instead when working in PPro I went to File>Adobe DL>import AE comp, and the same when using AE.

In any case, I am sticking to the one way method, as I have several interns at the University I am working with that are doing rotoscoping for me on their laptops, some of them using AE CS4. So I transfer one clip at a time to each student on their laptop, give them the in and out points and have them go to town. Then all they have to do is email me their AE project for that one clip and I re-link it on my system.

Stephen Eckelberry

[Alex Udell]

Hi Steve…

Glad you have a workflow that meets your needs.

I think we had a fundamental miss early on in the thread…

In PPro:
Replace with AE Comp (CS4 and later)
and
Copy in PPro > then Paste into AE Comp (older method)

are methods of creating AE Comps from edits started in PPro.

you are referring to the other end:

Taking the AE comp back into PPro as a Live link to the AE as opposed to taking a clip rendered from AE back into PPro.

Regardless of the method…

My question centered around:

If you are using an AE comp Dynamically linked in PPRO and are in a Shared storage environment, if the AE artist changes and saves the AE Project while you are working, will PPro detect it and update dynamically. My assumption is that as long all paths to media are the same in the workgroup, it would be true, BUT these are computers we’re talking about….so one can never tell. 🙂

Thanks,

Alex

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Well Alex, I understand now. Since I am not really working in a true workgroup environment, i.e.: with one set of media for everyone to use, I can’t ultimately answer your question. But I am working in a workgroup environment in that several (7-8) people are working on the same project. We will have a master computer that will contain the most up-to date PPro cut with a folder with the most up to date AE projects. We will end up by doing some manual replacing of the DL files simply because they will have been changed offline.

Stephen Eckelberry