[Max Jackson]

Hi Alex,

Sorry if the description is a bit hard to understand. My problem was that I tried the “Replace with After Effects Composition” function by right-clicking on a clip.

I figured “Wow, this dynamic link stuff is great!”

Wrong.

Once I selected that option the clip in question now has no memory of in/out points and if the AEP that I’m supposed to create is a flop I’m completely without a video reference.

Additionally, in terms of workflow I don’t see how this makes any sense if you add any motion to the video in Premiere. If I’m moving this video into AE to key something out I don’t want the comp moving around etc.

So now I’m stuck with a clip scaling etc. with no video source going the wrong direction in terms of workflow.

Thank goodness I had a copy of the clip in another sequence within the Premiere file or I’d have to eyeball edit the whole over again from scratch.

Obviously somebody thought this option was a good idea, but with all the pop-up warning Premiere provides for video format this one took me by surprise and was a one-way street. I must have video workflow completely wrong because I don’t see the point in this function. In further updates, it would really speed things up if they had an “Export Clip” function. That’s all I was trying to do. Not replace my clip with a completely new file that no longer has video source reference at all (Which is just awesome the way Panasonic labels files).

I hope all this makes sense. It’s really just a gripe. If there’s a rants and raves section in creative cow I would’ve posted this there. I just have to admit that I’m scared to try any other hip new function in Premiere as I’m afraid it’ll just cost me more time.

[Max Jackson]

Cool link Ben, I’ll check it out.

Thanks!

[Max Jackson]

Smooth sounds like an adjective that describes what I’m looking for.

To complicate the matter of course for realism, I’m probably going to have to search and finagle a smooth null track that provides an amount of wiggle attached to the track with it’s own variance.

Heh, I guess this is getting brainy…

So there’s a such thing as a smooth expression. Is there a way to attach a wiggle variant conditionally to this guy? I’m brand new at expressions.

Even worse it’s like 1 AM standard time and I’ve got to cut out from this composite because I have to cut paper tomorrow early.

Sorry for a bunch of hit and run. I wasn’t watching the clock.

Thanks for any answers as always. I hope for one day sooner than later to ripple back with more than most likely the obvious.

[Max Jackson]

Ah! Brilliant! That switch was on:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7dffa.html#WS489e2befc4894146-5ce5498b126ee507835-8000

Thank you Brian! You’ve made my tutorials and testing suddenly much less sticky and confusing.

[Max Jackson]

Awesome, will do. Thanks Everest!

[Max Jackson]

Also all my imported Project content is suddenly GONE.

I would’ve posted it in the original Thread but forgot to hit reply to myself and responded to myself thusly screwing that up.

Why has all my imported Project material just vanished.

[Max Jackson]

Sorry for the extra response. I forgot to hit Respond to Entire Thread.

[Max Jackson]

Hi David,

It wouldn’t drag for some reason, so I selected everything, and COPY/PASTED into the new sequence. It didn’t even give me the pop-up window. But now it’s giving me the colored bars up top like I’d expect. Not just a bunch of red/purple.

Everything just works. (sigh) Thank you. Thanks a bunch. I’ll remember now if my whole comp is behaving super whack, to do the whole bait and switch to see if that works.

Thanks a bunch.

Best,
-m

[Max Jackson]

Nevermind…Another Dumbass Comment of mine.

Just learning the difference between y-axis and scale.

I wish I could delete this thread. It’s useless to read.

Thanks anyway, Creative Cow is awesome.

Have a great night/day! 🙂

[Max Jackson]

Adobe CS5. I’ve installed all the updates aside from purchasing another upgrade.