Pr Pro link to Ae issues-CS6

[Nader Subaih]

Thank you Robert.
I have done exactly what you asked and this is the results I got.
Adding the same exact footage to the project with the issue, and creating new sequences from them from the project, works like a charm. same exact settings. So I ruled out that this has to do with the footage itself. I created a new project and imported a sequence from the project with this issue and surprisingly the problem carried over.
I took the footage offline and re-linked it, even moving its folder to another HDD. I renamed it, and did a “Replace footage” and still I had the problem. I tried auto saved versions of the project, too. same results. Somehow, Pr/Ae know that the original files should create comps, and I was not able to trick it to take a fresh look at them.
I gave up in the end, and decided to recreate one of the sequences which will be edited the most in Ae. So in the original project with the issue, i imported the same footage in a new bin, and using editing date (in and outs) of the original sequence, I recreated the sequence on a video track below the original. I kept checking that new footage don’t have the same problem by doing “Replace with Ae composition” for every couple of clips I add and edit. and there was not issue.


All along I tried to ignore the fact that I am redoing a work the I already did with the same footage I used before. mind you that even original footage that I imported but did not use in any of the sequences, had the same problem…very strange.

In the end, I selected all footage in the sequence and did a replace thinking finally I well work on the effects, and to to my horror, some of the footage were composition.

Nothing special about the footage that turned to comp, I hardly edited any of it. I replaced the footage in Pr with the same footage, which are exactly the same, and then it worked!! However, this time I did not import it again to Pr, but used what I recently imported, and that worked. So at least I do not have to import again. Yet, at what point did Pr or Ae decide that this footage should become its own comp is beyond me.
At this point I was convinced this is a glitch, and I decided to uninstall both Pr and Ae and delete all preferences and cach, and re installed. This changed nothing when opening the projects.
Now what I am doing is carefully adding footage in the sequence, and then replacing it with Ae comp immediately. And moving on to importing and adding new footage. It is a long and tedious process, but I was left no choice
One note, I noticed that when AE/Pr decide that this clip should become a comp, it takes more time to appear in the new comp in Ae, while adding them as layers happens very quickly.

Sorry for the long reply and thanks again.

Nader

[Nader Subaih]

I have found the sloution Thanks to Fuzzy Barsik on Adobe Ae forums. link below:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4818156#4818156

[Travis Matteson]

Just want to say I’m so happy this forum came up and a solution was found because I just ran into this problem and was banging my head against a wall trying to figure it out.

Just to clarify the solution “Right-click your clips in PrPro timeline and check if ‘Scale to Frame Size’ option is ticked for them”