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Pr CS6 – Dynamic Link Speed Change Issue
Hey gang!
I’m currently working on a music video that requires copious amounts of speed changes and effects (such as Video Copilot’s twitch and such, all done in AE). So I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to start using Dynamic Link in Pr.My sequence is set to DSLR (h264 720p) and all my footage is h264 as well. All my takes are pretty long, so I divided each into several subclips. All clips in the timeline are taken directly from the subclips (not sure if this will have a factor in my problem)
My current (test) sequence is about 25 seconds and has 40 cuts, with each clip at a varied speed (200%, 180%, 100%, -90%, 300%, etc.) It looked great and I loved it, so I selected all clips and right clicked for “replace with after effects composition”. AE opens. A few of the clips begin to appear, then I get this lovely message in Pr: “The Importer reported a general error.” The clips that did open in AE are not even in the right order, and seemed to be only clips from the sequence that were at 100%.Trying to deduce the issue myself, I duplicated that sequence, reset all speed to 100% (which completely trashed my edit), but everything went to AE just fine. This has led me to believe that the Dynamic Link feature does not include speed changes.
My questions:
Has anyone experienced or heard of this issue or others related to speed changes and Dynamic Link? Is there a step I might have missed that would resolve this problem? Or maybe another workaround?
I really don’t want to have to redo each sequence in AE for speed change when I already have it in Pr.Thanks guys,
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4 Replies
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bump.
I also re-edited the speed changes as time remapping with the same results. Well, not exactly the same. The ones that did open were actually playing as different sections from the original subclip. O.o Further confusion…
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What about Speed changes W/O subclipping?
Alex
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After redoing the whole sequence not using my subclips….. and IT WORKED! Hooray!
So, final conclusion: Dynamic link does not like subclips.
Now I just have to go back and re do the edit, which shouldn’t be too hard since it’s still a rough.
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I think that since AE doesn’t really have a SUB CLIP function…
speed changing a virtual/virtual pointer is likely the culprit.
As helpful as subclips are….I’ve found that just marking up the master clips may be a slightly better solution in most cases…
with the improvements to source side markers in CS6, it should be a lot less painful…
glad you are on a good road….
Alex
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