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| My standard use of Dynamic Link to bring a clip into AE for editing is to Right Click on a single clip, Create AE comp from selected, save the Project file unless one has already been started from Premiere, then return to Premiere Pro and Ctrl/Cmnd + z to undo the conversion. Personally I think keeping the AE file as a live link is inefficient and potentially dangerous unless the composite is really simple. With the AE comp created and the footage imported I almost always add a few frames at the head and tail of the shot (usually 30) as handles, do my magic in AE, render a DI using a suitable mezzanine format, and replace the shot in Premiere Pro with the rendered file. This actually saves me a bunch of render time in the long run. Let me explain. Most of my composites are very complicated. Many two or three minutes a frame to render. I had a project the other day that took nearly 5 minutes per frame to render. It broke twice but I was able to pick it up without loosing any of the previous frames because I was rendering image sequences. The shot never would have previewed in Premiere Pro, and it would have added more than three hours to the final render if I had left it as a dynamic linked AEP. I use Render Garden to render my AE comps so I never wait for renders. I just move on to the next AE project or return to Premiere Pro and continue the edit until the render is complete. There is no wasted time. The only time I use Dynamic link as a live file is when the composite is extremely simple. Now that Essential Graphics is working so well I almost never use Dynamic Link for text. It’s just not worth the time. If I am working on audio in Premiere Pro I always use Dynamic link and Audition. That workflow is a time saver. P-Pro to AE through dynamic link can be a time waster. Rick Gerard DP/VFX Supervisor MovI Pro / ALTA / Licensed Commercial Pilot Fixed Wing and UAV Northern CA |
