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Dynamically linked After Effects compositions aren’t loading
I’m having trouble with dynamic linking between Premiere and After Effects (CS4, Mac). My workflow is this: in Premiere, I right-click on a clip and select “Replace With After Effects Composition”. I then create the After Effects composition, and when I go back to Premiere, the new composition appears just fine.
But after closing both programs and reopening them, the dynamic links stop working in Premiere. First I got Premiere’s red screen saying the link were broken, so I used Premiere’s project window to relink the appropriate AE files. Little green icons appeared next to each file, indicating that they’re properly linked, and I no longer got the red screen. However, in the timeline, the clips are appearing with diagonal lines over them, and in the Project Monitor, the AE sequences aren’t appearing at all.
At times I’ve had better results by first opening After Effects with the appropriate project file, then Premiere, as I understand there’s a server-client relationship between the two programs, but lately I’m not getting any results.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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I had a very similar problem with dynamic linked AE comps in Premiere. I found that it happened when closing and reopening proyects that haven´t been “full” processed. By this i mean that there are 2 rendering ways in premiere timeline: first, the most common, is the “render effects in timeline” option, placed by default in the “Enter” keyboard shortcut.
But there is a “Full processing all the work area in timeline” option, than can be found in the Sequence menu in the top menus of premiere. Using this option renders all in timeline under work area, and allows to preserve AE comps rendered and dynamic linked forever, even if you close AE o re-open the premiere proyect at anytime.
Anyway, ensure that you don´t move AE files or AE saved proyect to any other folder in order to mantain his rendered versions on PPro timeline.Hope this helps
Regards
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Thanks for the insights. I’ll keep this in mind going forward. Though it’s less than ideal, as I I’m constantly making changes to the After Effects files and so don’t see the value in waiting for them to render again and again (a lot of waiting). I guess I can live with it for now.
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