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Dynamic Link Afetr Effects -Premiere Pro recurring media offline problem

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October 16, 2020
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Hi!

I have a Premiere Pro timeline with many linkes After Effects compositions (about 8 comps).

Whenever I'm working in After Effects to change something and I save the project, ALL linked compositions in Premiere Pro go Offline. I need to relink them, and I can relink them no problem, becasue the project hasn't gone anywhere and hasn't changed name, but I lose my render files in Premiere and constantly relinking is being a total drag for my workflow.

Does anyone know if there's a fix for that?

Correct answer AlWEb1234

Having the same issue, yet it only started today. Its been working fine until now.

Matthew David King

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For Mac:
System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access

Add Premier Pro, After Effects & After Effects Render Engine. This will require program restarts.

Fixed it for me.

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daniell69230148

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This issue has been going on since I can remember. I'm seriously considering switching to Resolve. Adobe please get it together! Dynamic link just doesn't work.

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Abdellah_Chi3235

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Open your AE project before launching or opening your Premiere Pro project.

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Ruwid

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Hi there, I'm having the same issue, I have my project files (both AE and Premiere) in the same directory on Google Drive, with the "available offline" option checked. If I move the AE project to my desktop the composition gets updated successfully without going offline.
I'm on Mac 15.3.1, Premiere and After Effects 2025

Joe_wpi

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I can not speak for Google drive but I can speak to macs having this issue. Did you @Ruwid try when it happens to right click on the linked comp inside premiere and select the "edit original" button?

I've found that on Mac the file path can differ slightly, but by hitting edit original, it directs after effects to open the project from the directory that adobe sees it from, rather than the directory you opened it from. When you hit it, after effects will reload the project and it should be working again.

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Ruwid

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Yes, I tried this and it's working! Thank you so much

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pmcdonald

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Midway through 2024 and still having this issue. It has plagued me for years but I'm finally doing some searching for a cure.

Running Windows 11
Both programs on the same version (24.4.1)
No illegal characters in paths
Ae and Pr projects living in the same folder on a local network drive
Saving in Ae causes the Pr dynamic links to go offline. I can batch relink from Pr by pointing it at the Ae project but it's tedious (I save a lot)

Anyone got a consistent solve? Or better yet Adobe got a bug fix?

dolphinganz

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Yes, @Pedro Rabbi's special character advise solved it 100% for me. Rock solid since then. I had a special character in my root work folder before, this was causing the problem... Since changing it and also avoiding all special characters in any folder or file names, I have a super Dynamic Link experience. Unbelivable, after all those buggy months and years. :))

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pmcdonald

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Great to know. Beats me what's up with mine then ... zero illegal characters in my neighbourhood 😕😕

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lpowaski

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I was having the same issue. Then I realized I was working in Premier 24, but after effects 23. After I updated after effects to 2024 it seems to be working for me.

leonardc18823883

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Removing special characters such as à or é (Yes I'm French) in all folder names on the way and the project file names solved it for me as well. Thanks to Pedro Rabbi

dolphinganz

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Thank you! This has 100% solved it for me! :)) Genius!

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TIM_Producer6

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This fix worked for me (PC) and referencing files from a server (may be relevant):

It will bring your Windows File Explorer Window to find the last location of the AE file, BUT don't just click the project file that shows up in the initial window, instead go to a seperate windows file explorer window and navigate to your project's location, copy your file path from there and paste it into the windows file explorer window that After Effects had launched, then click your AE project file you want it to link to. For whatever reason, this works for me and I can now save in After Effects and not lose connection to linked comps in Premiere.

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Leigh-DTP

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This advice helped solve my issue. Posting my experience here in case it helps anyone else. In my case, it may been a combination of issues with the new Dropbox for macOS and Adobe's Media Browser. Since the dropbox default location has changed maybe the Media Browser is giving the AEP files the wrong address 🤷‍♂. Just a guess.

When I was working in the AE project and save, it would go offline in PPro. First I used TIM_Producer6's advice and unchecked "Use Media Browser to locate files" in the Link Media dialogue. Then, using Joe_wpi's advice above, once it was reconnected I right-clicked and selected "Edit Original". And even though the active AE project was already open, AE closed it and opened it again. Now saving the AE does not cause the dynamic link to go offline.

You can see in the PPro Project Panel, if you have the File Path metadata column activated, that it shows different Finder addresses for AEP files that work and ones that have the issue.

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Leigh-DTP

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I also meant to mention that both my PPro and AE are the same version, but the problem had persisted until I followed the procedure above.

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AlWEb1234

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HAHA I found out what the issue was and this totally fixed it.... Make sure that Premiere and After Effects are both updated and the same version.🤦‍♀️now it works just fine