[Mrarmadillo]

I haven’t tried that method of going to AE from Premiere – I’ll give it a shot. However, I have found for this particular project that dynamic link and other methods that preserve motion from Premiere hinder a clean workflow in AE. To explain: The video series generally intercuts between three camera angles – one close, one medium, and one wide. My preference is to precompose all of the close-up shots together, all of the medium shots together, etc. in order to pull a key in detail once for each shot, regardless of how many times I cut away from that shot. I’ve been doing this by organizing my Premiere timeline and copy/pasting the different tracks into different AE compositions, (like stems from Protools or Audition.)

Am I off track?

[Mrarmadillo]

this would appear to be the perfect solution, except it does not allow one to paint while viewing the other frames, only during playback. Since the painting must be done while the nested composition is open for editing, you can’t see the onion skin while painting.

Or perhaps i am missing something here? I am only assuming precomping involves nested compositions, but if I’m wrong, can you please be more specific?