Dynamic Link is almost working perfectly

[Bart Straman]

heey,

ehm, what to do. save your AE project, close AE, then open it in PP2. then it should work fine.
what you describe is I guess when you change in AE, it update automatic in PP2(dymanic link), than is very obvious that when you close that link it stops. only if you close AE (after saving) and import the AE project it should work.

Bart

[Mike Behrens]

Thanks Bart, but that doesn’t work either. I have tried saving the AE comp and importing into Premiere, and as soon as I close AE, I get color bars in the linked clip.

I have also tried, as you wrote, saving and closing AE before importing into Premiere, but I get the same result – color bars.

Any other ideas?

-Mike Behrens-

[Bart Straman]

heey,

so if you saved your AE file, close everything and then import it in PP, it still gives weird color stripes, hmm.

the reason those stripes appear is because it can’t find / display that particular file. if you double click on it it mostlikely gives a pop-up asking you where the file is right? (this is in AE, I also thought in PP). if you than find your movie file , than it should work. but normaly this shouldn happen when opening an AE file. mayby another reason is that the movie file is in some weird format PP can;t display it/handle it, mayby look at that to.

Greetzz

Bart

ps: this is my discription of a few post a few years ago when alot of question came up for combining AE and PP

Edit your clip in Premiere. than save your project.

-open After Effects. file>import, then import your Premiere Pro project file.

-now you see your clips in the project panel and very important a sequence file (it’s called that way I thought).

-double click on that sequence file (important: do not move it into the timeline, just double click). and all your seperate scenes/shots/files (cut in Premiere pro) appear in the timeline in AE as seperated layers (also transitions and styles from Premiere PRo are imported).

-then use coole effects on them separedly. if you wanne render in AE, your done here.

render out in Premiere:

-then save your AE file. and if you wanna render it out in Premiere pro, just open the AE project file in Premiere.

-then only 1 clip will appear, but you’ve edit this the first time in PP and allready applied effects on it in AE, so no prob there 🙂

i tried dynamic link, but this is only a options for 1 scene/dvd menu or whatever per sequence. only usefull if you wanne see direct result between AE and PP. not with a movie with 200 shots or so:P

[Mike Behrens]

Thanks again Bart,

That isn’t working either. I think that my computer is just messed up. I may be rebuilding it soon.

By the way, I have read your earlier post on how you use Dynamic Link. In fact, that post was so helpful, that I have a printout of it right on my desk.

So I just wanted to say thanks for that too.

-Mike Behrens-

-Mike Behrens-

[Bart Straman]

heey Mike

then it’s a very “rare” problem you have there. I still think it has to do something with the file location, but I’m not sure.

dynamic link is very usefull and with the right steps switching between AE en PP2 on a bigger scale also.

You know, you can render stuff out with alpha so that you can put cool and very stylish effects which you only wanna use to point things out in your footage. (in interviews, that in some fancy graphics the name of the persons display’s and then fades away,all that small things so you don’t have switch back and fourth for 10000 times from AE to PP2 with dynamic link/with the method I described and still wanna use al that good stuff from AE, rather then the basic things in PP2)you can read more about it here: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/?p=151

good luck with your projects!

Greetzz

Bart