[Alex Udell]

in a nutshell…

If you get into a project with a number of media items not linked…

it’s possible to expose the media status as a column in project panel.
(might need to go to project panel metadata to show it)

then if you do a quick search for “offline” (via the field at the top of the panel) it will show only those items.

If you multi-select them and right click re-link…

then find the first one…

and the others are in the same folder…

it ought to find them….

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

Hi All…

While this might be a solution…it’s not really ideal.

I’d think editors want the freedom to marry titles anwhere they want on the timeline….

How about leaving the drop shadow off and adding it in PPro?

There should be a drop shadow effect that could be identical to it’s AE counterpart…

would that help?

thanks..

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

Thanks Much!!

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

Hey Walter…

thanks for the chime in. Agree whole heartedly with your philosophy on this.

I was merely pointing out that many ppl conflate Dynamic Link as somehow performance enhancing realtime playback for AE or tying it into the Mercury playback engine. That’s all.

AMU

[Alex Udell]

Hiya….

Dynamic link is only a method of connection between PPro an AE.
It in no way, mercury engine, or otherwise improves playback performance.

A few methods to help with PPro and AE integration are:

a) Render and Set Proxy In AE from you dynamic link comps
b) Render in AE with XMP and project linking embedded via Render Queue and replace on PPro TImeline. This gives you quick access to edit original.
c) Copy and paste from PPro to AE to start your AE comps, as opposed to using Dynamic link at all.

hope that helps some…

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Two things come to mind.

If plug-ins are OK…check Boris FX..they had a plug-in devoted to this specific function.

if not….

Create an animated circle wipe matte as a simple piece of ftg…0%-100%

Then you can use retiming in PPro to allow them set the progression to whatever % they want… as part of your nested layer setup.

That’s my best guess…

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Premiere Pro calls it Smart Rendering.

Limited to a few formats before CS5.

PPro CC adds ProRes to this list.

See this: https://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2012/10/11/smart-rendering-in-premiere-pro-cs6-6-0-1-and-later/

and this:

https://vimeo.com/62438789

hope that helps….

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Brad…

Why I’m curious….

is that if you Cache Preview in AE (using GPC) then that’s (in theory) what PPro ought to be looking at when rendering…. so if you see a blue bar in AE on the seq (this is from my memory not user experience) then should be reading cache off the disk and this is essentially the same as the manual set proxy method.

to answer your other question…

If you Drag an AE project to AME…

then you can set batch renders of all the comps…

once rendered…you could then re-open the AE project and connect the AME renders as Proxies to the originating comps…

AE CC (as I’ve seen on Adobe’s site demo) will allow you to AME render right from AE…

does that help?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

Hey Brad….

I’m curious….

what version of AE/PPro are you using?

If CS6….

How is your Global Performance (disk) Cache set up in AE?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Alex Udell]

There’s been a lot of discussion about this…

one of my methods is to:

set Proxy in AE and render there, at full res….

that PPro essentially sees the AE project as single video clip…

renders should be a lot less heavy…

Other ppl don’t dynamic link, but rather redner and replace in PPro…using the XMP project link options in AE….

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX