Can't Relink AE Linked Comps (or...Adobe Customer Support Sucks)
I've long been familiar with Premiere's habit of having linked AE comps be offline each time I open the Premiere project, but relinking them all usually isn't hard, it just takes some time to let Premiere do its thing if there are a lot of them. In this case I have a project with a large number of comps linked to only two different AE projects. It had been working fine, aside from the aforementioned issue of the comps being offline every time I opened the project. Today when trying to relink them - same way I always do, clicking on each of the two bins containing the linked comps, Link Media, pointing to the .aep, etc. - Premiere freezes and gives me the beach ball. Nearly two hours screen sharing with support and...nothing. Support suggested it was a problem with the AE project, because it could not be imported into a fresh Premiere project either. Importing via Dynamic Link, you click on the .aep and no compositions appear for you to choose to import. Everything was a dead end. But when I finally asked the question - how do two .aep files suddenly get "corrupted" at the same time? - he bailed from the support session. Seriously. Just left. Also dodge my previous question as to whether he thought a clean install would help. Waited several minutes for a response, asked the question about the projects going corrupt simultaneously and then went ahead and began the Cloud Cleaner process, which is when he bailed.
What a company this is. The software. The support. All absolute —. And knowing us fools will keep paying for their — platter of a software suite because if we don't, we can't open old projects. FCPx ain't looking so bad right about now. , Magix Movie Edit Pro 2004 is a bit tempting at this point - wonder if I still have that in a drawer somewhere.
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