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7SBF
Known Participant
July 2, 2025

After Effects project with dynamic links deletes itself (Win > Mac)

  • July 2, 2025
  • 3 replies
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Hi there,

 

I discovered a really annoying bug that needs to adressed asap. When I create a Premiere project with Dynamic links in After Effects on a Windows machine and later on open the same project on a Mac, upon saving the After Effects project, it deletes itself. It vanished, literally.

 

Example: I create and work on a project with multiple dynamic links on a windows machine. Later I open the same project on my MacBook, and right click the dynamic link > edit original. Change the composition in AE, hit save and boom! Gone. 

 

When you close out AE you're in bad luck. It;s nowhere to be found. Workaround is to hit 'save as...' 

 

I've read online multiple people running into this problem. This is a serious and known problem and needs to be fixed asap! 

3 replies

Community Manager
November 19, 2025

Updating Status: Fixed (After Effects 25.6 and Premiere Pro 25.6.1)

Community Manager
September 29, 2025

Hi @7SBF and @dougd94168183,

Thank you for reporting a problem. This bug has been now filed and thread will be updated once we have more information.

Sorry for the frustration this has caused.
Dani

dougd94168183
Participant
September 4, 2025

YES. SAME VERY ANNOYING ISSUE. Thankfully I have backups but I've got a Premiere Pro project with 30+ dynamically linked after effects comps and it just magically deletes them... Not a cool feature.