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Dynamic Linking multiple AE files to a single Premiere Pro Project (CS5.5)
Hi there,
Here’s hoping the Creative Cow brain trust can pull me out the soup. I’m in the middle of editing a 20 minute short film, and for the sake of simplicity (I thought), I initially edited it scene by scene, with each scene on it’s own timeline, and all of the dynamically linked AE comps (pretty much every single shot) saved in a single AEP for that scene.
The problem arises now that I’m trying to sew them all together. Premiere sees all of the AE Comps not currently open in AE as “Offline Media” complete with Red Message of Doom. If I try to relink them, Premiere crashes. On the other hand, if say I’m trying to relink files from scene 5, and I open scene5.aep, then the files relink fine, but all of the other scenes become “Offline Media.”
I tried importing all of the individual scene aep files into a new compilation project that I could keep open in AE while I tried to relink all the files in Premiere, but that doesn’t work either. I can go through and render all of the files out of AE and then replace the Dynamic Linked files in Premiere with the rendered copies but that seems to defeat the purpose of Dynamic linking.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Ted -
2 Replies
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If I read your description correct, have you tried exporting each scene as a clip then sewing those clips together in a new timeline? It would be less taxing on Premiere.
All the best
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Bernardo,
Thanks for your reply. That does work, and in fact that’s how I’ve been proceeding with the project the last several days. However, it entirely defeats the purpose of Dynamic Linking. I completely understand if there are limitations on how and in what situations you can create dynamic links, but I would sure like to know what they are.
Ted
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