[Tim Kurkoski]

OK, need more information then.

When you say “not linked”, what do you mean? What is the result that you’re expecting, and what is the result that you’re actually getting?

Screenshots of what you see in Premiere Pro and what you see in AME would be helpful.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Does the behavior change if you do either of the following?

1. Save the After Effects project, then close and re-add the sequence to AME.
2. Disable Import Sequences Natively in AME’s preferences > General, then re-add the sequence to AME.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Sorry, Jonah, I don’t know about that issue with Premiere Pro. Best to start a new thread on the topic.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Thanks for the update, Jonah. Glad you got it working.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Jonah, I don’t know what’s happened on your machine.

One thing to note is that neither Premiere Pro or After Effects will use a second monitor for video preview if the application’s UI frame is on that monitor. So if you’ve stretched your workspace (either intentionally or un-) onto that monitor, you’ll need to move it back to the primary.

Otherwise, I can only grasp at straws. I assume you’ve rebooted the computer already. A general troubleshooting step would be to reset Premiere Pro’s preferences.

If that doesn’t help, and if you haven’t already, I would post about this on the Premiere Pro forum, either the one here or at Adobe.com.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Adobe Media Encoder doesn’t have larger than 8bpc for the still image formats.

I recommend you use the Render Queue in After Effects for still image sequence exports of After Effects comps, for this and other reasons (alpha channel support, output file naming templates).

[Tim Kurkoski]

Ah, yes, sorry. Saving a RAM preview is a special case. I was thinking of the Pre-render settings.

So the logic of Save RAM Preview goes like this: you have the comp preview cached in RAM, and you simply want to save it to a file on disk. There are no further render settings for this case, you’re going to get exactly what is currently cached in RAM.

Enabling settings would then potentially require After Effects to re-render the comp to match the new settings. At that point you’re not saving the RAM preview.

So it sounds like you want a quickie Render Settings template that is similar to the Current Settings, just without guide layers enabled. Easy enough for you to set up in that dialog.

[Tim Kurkoski]

You can edit the Render Settings presets by going to Edit > Templates > Render Settings.

Similar path for the Output Module presets.

More info here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/basics-rendering-exporting.html

[Tim Kurkoski]

Install the 2014.1 updates for After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder. A bug was fixed in this version that caused Dynamic Link to be slow when the After Effects user interface was open.

[Tim Kurkoski]

Generally, Adobe Media Encoder should not render an old version of your After Effects composition, but there are some circumstances that could cause this. To explain why, I’ll detail some of the under-the-hood details of how Adobe Media Encoder and After Effects interact:

1. In After Effects, the Composition > Add To Adobe Media Encoder Queue command saves a copy of your project in a temporary folder (compositionName_AME, saved in the project file directory), and this is the project that is sent to Adobe Media Encoder. This also occurs when you drag a composition from the Project panel in After Effects to the Queue panel in Adobe Media Encoder.

Because this temp project is separate from your original project, changes you save into your project are not reflected in the temp project. Therefore, if you make changes to your project, you should not reuse an instance of this temp project in Adobe Media Encoder’s queue. Instead, use the Add To Adobe Media Encoder Queue command again to send a fresh copy.

2. In Adobe Media Encoder, you can also add compositions by using the File > Add or Add After Effects Composition commands. The Add dialog can also be invoked by double-clicking in the empty space in the Queue panel.

This method will reference your original project file, no temp projects are involved, so changes you save into your project will be reflected.

However, once Adobe Media Encoder has loaded a composition into memory, it will not refresh it after you save changes into the project. This is a bug. To work around this problem, quit Adobe Media Encoder, wait about 5-10 seconds to allow all of the sub-processes to shut down, then relaunch Adobe Media Encoder. (This may not be necessary 100% of the time, as when Adobe Media Encoder runs out of memory it will close unused sub-processes automatically, and reload them when you request their use again.)