Jim, one fun little trick I borrowed from my days of cutting in Avid DS and doing motion graphics work in AE is this…
1. Cut my seq in PrP.
2. Identify my first clip to be sent to AE.
3. Duplicate that clip, drag it to V2 and deactivate it (right click)
4. Send the clip on V! to AE as a DL.
This way I have an immediate reference to the original clip if I need it.Yet its invisible to the timeline. It works great!
Tom Daigon
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