Dynamic Link breaks EVERY TIME with After Effects into Premiere

I kind of feel like, and I want actual folks from Adobe to weigh in on this, but I feel like the AE project file has an identifier code in Premiere, and somehow through crashes the identifier code changes, even though it's the same prject file, so premiere is correctly linking the comps to identifier code 1, unlinking code 2 (for example), but all of these are the same damn AE project file, just further iterations.

If I'm totally wrong, can someone from Adobe pls correct me, I'm just trying to problem solve this.

so this isn't really solved, the solution above is a hack, not an actual fix, and it's an inconsistent hack.

Here's what I'm experiencing: I will often have many dynamically linked comps in PPRO, and if I have a crash during working on a project, all my post-crash linked comps - PP will treat them as from a different AE Project,

so for example if Linked Comps 1 and 2 were made pre crash, and then post crash I make 2 more Linked Comps let's call them 3 and 4. 

I will wake up one day to fine d that PPRO will start losing connection to 1 and 2, when I link 3 and 4, and vice versa. Making the time periods where everything is connected at the same time increasingly short. 

If I relink 3 and 4 to the same master AE file, it unlinks 1 and 2, and I do this dance all afternoon.

Also why can't we just have a button that kicks Premiere in the behind tells it to relink to the most recent AE file? because when I bring up the relink dialogue, it knows exactly where the AE file is, there's no others in the project folder to confuse it with, yet I have to do these same repetitive steps to tell it to relink to a file that is already it's seeming default because the relink dialogue goes immediately to the correct AE file, and will relink manually, but not automatically I guess? Is there a button that says 'try really hard Premier, you know where the damn AE file is, so stop letting go of it....'

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2025 and still the same problem. Another one switching to Davinci.

I had exactly the same problem. The solution so far has always been to check the file names and file paths for special characters.
Characters like ä,ö,ü,...or even a space at the end of the file name or path always cause these problems for me.
If these characters are deleted, it always works perfectly.

I have this problem all the time. It's been happening for over a year. I use "Replace with After Effects Composition" for all the links. Then when I make any small edits in my AE file, every clip in premiere unlinks. It's soooo annoying. 

It's easy to relink because when I click "Link" it takes me right to the file to select, but then all that I had rendered isn't rendered anymore.  

I don't think it's my laptop, because I have a new one and the problem happened on my old device too. 

As of this date I still have this problem. Has been with me for quite some time. Actually coming ang going in different projects for a few years as I can remember. I now have this issue with a project that involves a complex edit, with times motion grahics animations. And man. It really makes life, well.. not so fun,

It's happening to me too. As soon as I save in AE the link gets broken in PP. If I right click on the composition in PP and select Link Media and then click on Locate button, I see that the "Last Path" starts with "/Users/my_user_name" but the "Path" is actually "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/my_user_name".

I tried to replicate this several times, it replicates every time. 

I'm pretty sure I did all those things and it still works just fine. I think it's a bad idea to leave your computer always on. Save energy, give your computer a rest at night and a fresh start in the morning.

PPv23, Win11

I hope this may help someone. This has happened to me before, it hasn't happened in a while, but it started happening like 20 minutes ago for me. But I actually noticed a pattern.

I never turn my pc off, as we all do, so when I came back this morning to keep working on my project I noticed Premiere was pretty buggy so I re-started it.

And that's when it started happening. I first noticed that when I would click "Edit original", Premiere would put the After Effects window in front, but it wouldn't actually take me to the comp I requested. This was weird, but I didn't bother and just searched and opened the comp I needed.

I hit save on my changes and that's when it happens. After a quick search online I thought, what if the problem was re-starting Premiere? What if there's some sort of issue with the session time? what if the thing that —the Dynamic Link up is having AE open already when you start Premiere? What would happen if I close both, open Premiere, and then open AE through "Edit Original"?

However, I can tell you it worked for me. "Edit Original" works as it should and my links are not getting broken every time I save.

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