How to preserve crossfades in dynamic links to After Effects

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Hi there,just starting to use After Effects and I googled on the issue I have, but did not find an answer.When I send a clip from a timeline in Adobe Premiere to AE with "replace with AE composition", the crossfades left and right of the clip get srewed up. This does not surprise me, I understand that only the selected length of the clip is sent to AE and returned, so the material left and right which is needed for the overlapping fades with the clips left and right of my clip is lost.I cannot imagine that there isn't a way to preserve the overlapping crossfades, but how ??Thanks for your helpManfred

Michael Grenadier · Accepted Answer

the simplest solution is to put the clip to send to ae on a higher video track and have sufficient overlap over the preceding and next clip.  Then after saving in ae, and returning to premiere, simply add a dissolve to the beginning and end of your ae comp in the premiere timeline or keyframe the opacity of the ae comp.  If I'm not explaining this clearly post back and I'll try and go in to greater detail.

Michael Grenadier · Answer

well there's no reason why you can't select all 3 clips and send the three of them to AE... so the dissolves are built in to the ae comp.  But to me that's more complicated than my solution.

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