Dynamic Link AE comps are "Pending"

Legend

what I was suggesting is that you find the first iteration of the ae comp in your timeline. control click on it and choose "unlink" then select it again and choose "link" and if you look at the clip name in the link dialog I think it's giving you the text that you've used for this specific iteration of the ae comp. That should allow you to open the ae project, change the text and then render just this clip out and replace the problematic clip in the premier timeline. Make sense? see attached screen shot of the link media dialog. If that works, you'ld have to do this for all the problematic clips, but should be doable

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

That gives me the clip name, which is a start for trying to figure out how to redo this, but it doesn't give me the actual text that I used.

Legend

I'm trying to get my head around this. First thing I'd do is duplicate your sequence....

So if you select the clip in the premiere timeline and control click and choose make offline and then select it and go control click again choose link media, you'll get the link media dialog which will give you the clip name which I'm assuming is the specific text which you can then reference to customize the "template" in aftereffects and then save it as an inidividual ae project or render it out and replace it in the timeline. Make any sense at all? Certainly is a little clunky but might be a workaround.

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

No matter how many times you duplicate it in the Premiere project, if it's offline, you are going to relink it to the AE project.

If we go back to the lower third example. You would import the AE project into your Premiere project. If you have three talking heads, I would duplicate that AE project three times in the bin. I usually rename them just for organization purposes. In your bin, you would double click "Sue," enter the text you want and then put that in your timeline and then do that for the rest. To make changes Sue's lower third, you would go back to the duplicate in the bin that you renamed to "Sue" and make your changes. Then, everytime you use that specific duplicate lower third in the project, the changes would update in every instance of use.

Legend

can't hurt to send them to me. It might give me some insight into the workflow

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/33i8yp2g4uvxwlv/AACp2ZQpfEcJyPqCRO5gbu5Ha?dl=0

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

Legend

how are you bringing the ae project into premiere?

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

import the AE file like you would any asset and then you'll get a dialogue box asking which comp to import

Legend

alright, any excuse not to do the work I should be doing. I'll try and recreate this workflow and see if I have any ideas.

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for your help.

I can send you the AE and Premiere files if you like but it works how it should when creating new instances.

When I right click the AE in the timeline and select reveal in project, which is what you need to do to edit the text anyway, the effect controls are blank, presumably becasue it's till pending.

Legend

maybe this is something I just haven't worked with in premiere. So you copy the ae comp in the timeline to another location. How do you change the text? Is the original text created in after effects? Can you copy one of the problematic ae comps to a new sequence in a new project? If you can upload this project and the ae project to dropbox and post the link, I can see if I can open it... You can attach a link to a post here.

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

Let's say you were making an animated lower third. In AE, you do your animation and for the text, I would put something like Name on one line and Title on the next. You can then bring that AE project into Premiere and that text is editable but only if you double click it in the bin. Before I understood how to make mogrts this is how I would lower thirds and titles for project that had a lot of talking heads.

In my project, I duplicated that AE project in my bin as many times as I needed and then I would edit the text and bring it to my timeline.

Legend

you said that the ae project was NOT corrupt "The AE project isn't corrupt because it works in other sequences" Am I not understanding something?

Legend

And After Effects also has an autosave function.

Legend

OK. stay calm and let's see what we can do. Duplicate one sequence. Delete all the AE comps from the sequence. Can you then export, etc?

If so, load the AE project and render out all the necessary comps and replace the ae comps in your sequence with these files. Make sense?

I'm in for a couple of hours today and will try and keep checking my email and see if we can get you thru this.

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

I understand that suggestion, and I should have done that from the start, but I still don't have the copy that I would need. The only place that exists, is in these "pending" AE comps in my Premiere timeline.

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

I get that error message in After Effects

Legend

I'm just guessing but maybe you've got too much going on in your project. Try selecting one sequence in the browser, go to file: export and choose: selected as premiere project. Quit premiere and try launching just this project containing the one sequence. Post back if that doesn't work and maybe I can think of some other things to try.

Jon CoyopaAuthor

Inspiring

No matter what I try, the option to export a sequence as a project is grayed out. I have tried everything else I can find or think to do. I tried deleteing everything except for the sequence and necessary media and saving as a new project. Pasting the cut into a new sequence, opening auto save versions, etc. Everything.

The AE project isn't corrupt because it works in other sequences. It seems that the instances in these three sequences are bad. I would have just redone it by now but I don't have, nor can I get, the copy that I need (fired employee was using personal Dropbox to host and comment on cuts).

I'm screwed. I'm going to lose tens of thousands of dollars because of this. Thanks Adobe.