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March 11, 2025

AE 2025 Dynamic Link no longer trims footage

  • March 11, 2025
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The new way that AE 2025 handles the video files when you create a dynamic link from Premiere Pro is not useful for several applications, like motion tracking and rotoscoping in AE.

 

For example, to use motion tracking you have to be working in the layer for the video footage (not the main composition).  The problem with AE 20245 is that the dynamic link creates a composition that doesn't have the video footage you want to work with already nicely trimmed.  Instead the dynamic link creates a compostion with the video footage inside of another composition, and that composition has the ENTIRE video file. 

 

This is causing me problems for 2 reasons: 

 

1. If the video file is 5 minutes long and I only want to motion track 5 seconds of it, I don't need or want the full video file.  I want the 5 seconds of it I trimmed in Premiere Pro to be imported to AE with that footage trimmed the same way, and nicely placed on it's own layer.
2. If you want to motion track or rotoscope, you have to work directly on the video layer.  It doesn't help to have the video footage inside another compostion because you can't apply the motion tracking to a null in the main composition..  instead you're working with a 5 minute long timeline when you only want 5 seconds of it.

Does anyone else have this same problem?

 

1 reply

nishu_kush
Legend
March 13, 2025

Thanks for writing in.

 

I don't have this issue. For me, Premiere Pro is sending only the selected part of the clip (not the entire clip) in After Effects in its composition. Also, I don't remember any changes being made to the Dynamic link in the 25.X version. Do you mind sharing a screen recording of your workflow and the problem?

Happy to investigate.


Thanks,
Nishu