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How to unlink a Dynamic Link in Premiere Pro CS5?
Hi,
I am working on an edit in Premiere Pro CS5 and am using Dynamic Link to do grading and compositing in After Effects CS5. I had linked a new clip from the timeline to AE when after working on it for a minute AE crashed. I had not saved the project yet, but I had saved the Premiere project. So now when I open AE the clip isn’t there and in PPR there is still a link saying “media pending”. I can’t undo. I tried relinking the clip to the original video file but the program won’t accept it.
Is there a workaround?Thanks!
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When you set up the Dynamic Link AE would have asked you to set a project which would have saved where you set it.
Check that you can Edit original from the AE Comp in the PPro Project. It will most likely ask to see where it is.
If you have problems with that then you may be able to find the project from the recent list in opening After Effects.
It’s most likely the link has broken. There ‘should’ be the saved project file with the clip you sent via replace with AE Comp.
If not you may need to work from an older Auto save PPro Project to find the clip you used and the way you used it.
As a workflow I tend to edit in a sequence and get the timing right or close to before I start working on any Dyn Link (DL) clips. When I am happy with what I have and want to use DL, I make a duplicate of the Seq and then add “DL_” to the name of it. So then I have a copy of the edited clips before they were sent away to AE, as you now know there is not undo or ‘revert’.
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Thanks!
I continued working in AE after the crash as I’m under some time pressure, so there is no going back to old AE Auto Save Pojects I guess. I tried out some old Auto Save Premiere Projects as per your suggestion but to no avail.
So I guess there is no other way to tell Premiere to disregard the link and revert back to the original video file? That seems like a rather logical feature to have.
The edit was sent to me by the editor but the workflow you suggest is a sound one. I will try to import the original edit that was sent to me into the current one and see if I can do some copy pasting.
Thanks for guiding me to a possible solution.
/CW
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