When trying to "replace with After Effects composition" I get the error message above. I have seen many others with the same issue and logged out and rebooted as suggested and it still doesn't work. I am using version 17.0.1 of After Effects and 14.0 of Premiere Pro. What do I need to do to get this functionality to work? Seems it's going on for years...?
Thanks for reaching out. I see that you are trying to send a clip from Premiere Pro to After Effects but it's not working as expected.
Are you on macOS or Windows? Please share the OS version. Try importing the Premiere Pro file in Afte Effects by navigating to File > Import > Import Adobe Premiere Pro Project and check if it's working. Also, try updating the Creative Cloud desktop app as suggested by @ToolfarmJP.
I am using Windows 10.0.18363 and version 5.0.0.354 Creative Cloud App which seems to be the most up to date version. I tried importing a Premiere Project file into AE and it did not work. The dialogue box pops up and says "connecting to dynamic link server", but it just hangs.
Update, it DOES work to import a Premiere Pro Project file into A!. At first I was trying to import a file only, but when importing a Premiere Pro Project, it works. My apologies. Still can't getting "AE must be installed" error message when trying to Replace with AE Composition
Thanks for trying that @lesliek1. A patch update has been released for After Effects (17.0.2) and Premiere Pro (14.0.1). Could you try installing those updates and check if it brings any change.
I believe for dunamic link to work you need to be using the "same" iterations of the software. Like if you're using AE 2019 then to have dynamic linking the other app has to be 2019 as well.
I've had this problem for almost 4 months now and newer version or creative cloud, along with premiere and after effects havent fixed the problem. in the past, this problem fixed itself with a new update. sadly i've had to use my laptop instead of my desktop for most of my editing since i cant replace a clip with an after effects composition. someone please help us.
I have the same problem 😞 Everything is updated to latest release version, I try launch both (Pr and Ae) as administrator or without it, but without success.
Ok...I have been having this issue since Jan 2020, I have tried everything. I have also tried to post in this community but it kept bugging out. I have worked around these issues(importing/exporting separtate clips) but this simply isn't what I'm paying £50 a month for. Please can something be done about this, it's hard enough starting a production company let alone having your main editing pipline be this disrupted.
Hi – I'm having this problem now. Premiere 2023, After Effects 2023, both the most current updates. Can't dynamic link from Premiere because allegedly After Effects 2023 isn't installed (meanwhile it's literally open at that exact moment. Nothing I do gets that error to stop getting served to me. Unfortunately, I don't have any convenient workarounds, I need the dynamic link.
I posted a solution that worked for me...I'll paste it here
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uninstall Ae and remove all preferences
install again Ae
open all Ae files (an alarm will pop up asking to update to the latest version), update the version, and over-write (save with the exact same name by deleting the [converted] part that gets added by Ae by default)
once all files are up to date, open the Pr file, and all Ae in the timeline will play...
I just received two AE template files that won't import into Premiere Pro. I get the message "After Effects must be installed to import this file". I am able to open the file in AE 2020 (v17.0.6), and I am using the current version (14.1) of Premiere Pro. I'm working on an iMac Pro with OS High Sierra 10.13.6.
I am having the exact same thing. I had it working but once i took the latest updates (14.2 & 17.1) it stopped working. Is there any update on when this will be fixed?
I also tried saving as a 16 and it also didn't work. To make matters worse, when i try exporting a simple title with some basic animations, after affects throws an exception and gives me the "send report" dialog so i can't even import the mp4. I was trying to use Media Encoder. I finally just did the old school, "add to render queue" and was able to export it from AE as an avi. what a pain. This suite is much too expensive to have this many issues.
Dynamic Link, and copying between Premiere Pro and After Effects, require that PP and AE be the same versions to work. I stopped using Dynamic Link a few years ago, as it became exceedingly unreliable. Even with the same versions of AE and PP, I occassionally get "could not find Dynamic Link project" error message in PP if I copy and paste from Premiere to After Effects. Dynamic Link has also become very buggy with projects that have Warp Stabilizer applied, even if there is no Dynamic Link process involved at all. AE remains fairly reliable for me, but PP continues to catch new bugs with every release.
SAME!! This is so irritating that every time I allow an update of one of these apps to run, something goes wrong! Adobe, PLEASE test this stuff before you release updates! You design these apps to work together. Make sure they continue to work together. I've updated both PP and AE to the most recent versions, and I still can't get PP to import my AE comps or re-link my comps. This is wasting so much of my time, it's ridiculous. I have a change to make to a video that should take me about 5 minutes, and I've spent 2 hours already updating and trying to get these 2 apps to talk to each other.
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