[Alex Udell]

Hi Max…

Well….you certainly did jump right in with both feet.

If you want to use this workflow, as a suggestion, you might work from a duplicate seqeucne once you start moving into AE.

But there are a few paths to get material from PPro to AE and the replace method does have some caveats.

Dynamic link workflow is only dynamic in one direction. The comps created in AE are Dynmaic within PPro, meaning that any changes in AE will be reflected in PPro. The Replace fucntion is merely to consolidate a number of steps in sending material from PPro to AE.

But let’s say we take a step back and look at the manual way this could be accomplished….

1) If you select one or more clips on the Ppro timeline, and select copy (of hit ctrl/cmd C)
2) Change over to AE
3) Make Comp that is the same resolution as your PPro timline and open it.
4) Then in AE select Paste (or hit ctrl/cmd V)
5) Now the clips (as trimmed and edited in PPro) will be set up as layers in AE. And they will be edited in time at their positions in time equivlanet to where there were in PPro. An important feature of this is that if you have already done any scaling and repo work in PPro, those will be translated to AE transforms so the keyframes are available in AE.
6) using the steps above….you PPro sequence is left AS IS and you now can do FX versions in AE.
7) Depending on where in time the clips land in AE you may want to set the work area and trim the comp to get rid of excess blank space from time zero.

To get a Dynamic link version of your AE Comp back to PPro:

1) Name your comp in the AE proj window
2) Save the AE Project (where you can find it easily, and where it’s organized neatly with other project assets)
3) Go back to PPro and choose t File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition
4) Navigatge to where you saved your AE Project, choose it, then choose your comp from that project.
5) Now you’ll have your AE COMP in PPro dymaniclly linked….if you change and resave the AE Project, the comp will update in PPro.
6) You could cut this into your existing timeline and also choose to mute/disable the original source media. that way your clips will still be intact.

Does that help at all?

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Max…

Your description is a little vague.

Not sure of what you mean by “when I punched in the video”?

It sounds to me like when you move between PPro and AE, you have a clip that is perhaps the correct duration, but it’s lost it’s proper IN point?

Is this what you mean?

If so, I have experienced this in previous version of PPro/AE using HDV media.

What flavor of source are you using?

Alex

[Alex Udell]

yep that’s what I’m talking about.

see “Player Setting Prefs” here:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSAB1EDD0E-ADC2-4a10-B399-E809E588618B.html

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Are you using any kind of 3rd party hardware from Matrox, Black Magic, or AJA?

If so, check your preferences for the Source Viewer and you can select the device (as opposed to the default Adobe media player)

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Could this be a case of the relinked media needing to index when you connect it?

guessing….

Alex

[Alex Udell]

PPro gives you the ability to Import projects into other projects.

So if you set up an organized libraries of projects/bins

you could get what you wanted into any given project pretty quickly

Once a project is imported to another project, it is unique….

meaning you could import a whole project, take from it what you want and delete the rest from your projects (DON’T DELETE THE MEDIA) project and you won’t hurt or change the original project file.

but in this way you can retain all your project level meta data when importing,

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi…

there are lots of threads here about FCP to PPro migration. Generally I think ppl feel pretty positive about it.

Operationally, they are like cousins. So the migration is not hard.

I will be giving a prezo on this the end of October….if you contact me at audell999(at)yahoo(dot)com I can give ya the details.

Take a look thru the forum….You’ll see you are not alone.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Alan….

I understand that many apps will retain info regarding the previous path.
I guess my question is….if the previous path were there….then the media would relink…

so what I was trying to get at was….what happened to the path?

Are you on a SAN or NAS which could introduce fluctuations in drive letter assignments?

or using removeables?

if so, once you get past the volume letter the rest of the structure should remain relative….

re: liquid….that was a cool box. lots of nice editing features DVE interface, was cool and background rendering. very nice.

I am an ex-edit*or myself….but I’ve been thru many boxes since then. 🙂

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Alan….

I’ll assume Windows?

What Changed?
1) did you move media
2) Did you do something that would have changed drive letters?
3) are you using file based media that you didn’t copy to a local drive prior to working with it in PPro
4) Have you moved the project and it’s media into a subordinate folder?

A common gotcha with native media based on folder structures happens when you move the media.
If PPro has lost a link to a piece of media (the path doesn’t exist or it’s just not at that location), it will immediately look in the folder where the project lives,
if it finds one then it will start looking there for other media of the project there.

the gotcha with structured media (that is based on folder sets, like P2)
is that those clips live in sub-directories.

As I understand it,
PPro does not sniff subdirectories for matches and this can cause pain unfortunately.

Again…without detail….it’s hard to say…

but if ultimately you have to open the project with the clips “OFFLINE” then you can copy the file name from the project panel and in relinking paste it to help “find” in a the search dialog.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Yo could put them all into one sequence.

then you use that sequence as your editing source to a different timeline to skip having to create the file.

depends on what you are doing.

Alex