Dynamic Linking to to complex PP edit. Advice?

Question

I have a pretty busy edit in PP that I want to bring over to AE to experiment with some more advanced transition effects.

I first tried highlighting in PP the section I wanted to play with and selecting "Replace with After Effects Composition," but the process failed with a "generic error" once in AE. This isn't really surprising as I was selecting a couple dozen edits across several video tracks.

I then just tried opening the PP timeline in AE. Of course this worked fine, but I want to avoid this. You lose the ability to edit and apply effects to individual clips with this strategy, and I'm specifically trying to do just that.

I'm not new to PP or AE, but I don't use the Dynamic Link feature very often. All the tutorials I find online demonstrate DL for very simple projects with only a few clips and a few edits. I was wondering if anyone has any advice or workflow suggestions for DLing back and forth between more complicated projects.

Thanks!

Mylenium · Answer

Simply don't do it. you basically answered your own question: Anything to do with DL, be that comp replacments or even motion graphics templates, was never meant to be used for complex projects, just the occasional clip. Unfortunately this has taken on a life of its own due to Adobe not communicating the capabilities and limitations properly, so people use it for stuff it was never intended to all the time and then run into issues. Therefore the only sane advise with reasonably complex projects can be to not use these features or else you'll end up with so many DL instances it will bring your system to its knees because they're battling for resources. If at all tackle this on a as-needed basis and if the combinations get too complicated simply rebuild stuff from scratch in AE and then replace the clip in the Premiere timelein just like people have done it in the olden days...

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