Dynamic Link between AE projects

Cavalry seems to have beaten ya'll to the punch.

https://docs.cavalry.scenegroup.co/user-interface/menus/window-menu/assets-window/referencing/

Steal this feature yesterday! 

I eant to upvote this 1000 times

@jenkmeister17177426  Great! It would really be a much appriciated update, even if there is not enough requests for it.
It will help remote artists working with collaborators, also could be used as dynamicaly instancing a comp across multiple Ae projects with the option to convert it from linked to embeded for local editing.

Really appreciate the feedback and request for this. This is something we are discussing internally. No idea yet if/when it'll see the light of day, but we do hear the request and hopefully it is something we can deliver at some point in the future. 

As I've grown professionally, working with larger teams of artists, the lack of this functionally has increasingly a huge gaping hole in my workflow. I know Team Projects exists but was designed with Premiere in mind and doesn't do anything useful like comp locking or the like for After Effects. I don't know of anyone who has had a good time trying to implement that for AE and from what I understand its not reccomended.

A library or link function would be a huge benefit to the AE community. tagging  @jenkmeister17177426  for vis. 

I'd love to know if the Adobe team is working on this ability to link AE projects dynamically.

I head an animation team, and this is our biggest obstacle. If someone needs to update one project, we have to import the new update and swap out all the compositions. This becomes tedious when 5 or so projects need to be updated. We've developed our own shortcuts, creating scripts to swap compositions thoughout the entire project, but would be a huge time-saver if we can just link AE project files.

I've gotta say that it's pretty ridiculous at this point that After Effects doesn't have a link or reference project feature.

If you're collaborating with several other artists at any given time, prerendering or important projects is such a stupid, early 2000's standard way of working, and I've used AE professionally since 2002.

3D apps can reference models, Photoshop can dynamically reference other psd files.

YOU CAN IMPORT AEP FILES INTO PREMIERE THAT UPDATES AUTOMATICALLY!!!!

But no, After Effects can only import?

What year is this again?

I don't think Dynamic Link is the correct term for the feature request. "Link" may be more accurate. 

If you add an AEP file to your project, the entire project panel from that file is opened in a new folder, but it is no longer linked to the original. I would not know how a Premiere Pro/Dynamic Link setup would work because that workflow opens a copy of the AEP file and renders it in the background, which takes longer than rendering in the After Effects Render Queue. If my Dynamic Link created comps are complex I always render and replace in Premiere Pro to save time and increase stability.

Using Dynamic Link for Audition (AE or Premiere Pro) is only a one-way street that opens audio tracks in Audition and lets you edit them there, export the changes, and then use the new files.

If you want to save functions, animations, color settings, and even resize comps for social media, save your own animation presets. I have about 250 animation presets that I have created and saved. If you are into script writing, you can also save scripts. I have about 90 scripts that I use all the time. Most of them I purchased. Some of my Animation Presets and Scripts are client-specific, and I even occasionally license them to the clients for a fee. I also have created dozens of AE Templates and MOGTs for my productions and many of my clients.

The only way I can see dynamically connecting AEP project files would be to keep those AEP files live, the same way footage files stay live. Change the embedded AEP project file and save it. The changes appear the same way you edit footage (video, images, illustrations). It would only be helpful if you don't lose the ability to add an existing AEP or AET file to your current project and keep it unique. 

How about importing a composition from an Ae file back into After Effects maybe by using dynamic link. The same as smart objects in Ps, or linked files in Ai, or reference files in 3DsMax.
It will be helpfull in reusing assets and most importantly collaboration between team members working on the same project.
Suggestions for the naming "Smart Comp", "Reference Comp", or "Linked Comp".
Wouldn't it be a nice feature to add?

I am certain I am not the first to suggest this, but I couldn't find any other requests so I am submitting this anew. 

Please add Dynamic Link between two AE project files or something equivalent.

If you have an AEP file that contains a bunch of motion graphics for a client, you can import that AEP into a new project file for that client and have access to the motion graphics. Awesome. But if anyone goes back and updates those graphics in the original AEP, those updates don't propagate, like they would via Dynamic Link to and from Premiere Pro.

My particular workflow would benefit greatly from the ability to Dynamically Link two AEP files the way I can link AE and Premiere Pro.