Dynamic Link Afetr Effects -Premiere Pro recurring media offline problem

[Bernat5E78]

Hi!

I have a Premiere Pro timeline with  many linkes After Effects compositions (about 8 comps).

Whenever I'm working in After Effects to change something and I save the project, ALL linked compositions in Premiere Pro go Offline. I need to relink them, and I can relink them no problem, becasue the project hasn't gone anywhere and hasn't changed name, but I lose my render files in Premiere and constantly relinking is being a total drag for my workflow.

Does anyone know if there's a fix for that?

[Leigh-DTP]

This advice helped solve my issue. Posting my experience here in case it helps anyone else. In my case, it may been a combination of issues with the new Dropbox for macOS and Adobe's Media Browser. Since the dropbox default location has changed maybe the Media Browser is giving the AEP files the wrong address 🤷‍:male_sign:. Just a guess.

When I was working in the AE project and save, it would go offline in PPro. First I used TIM_Producer6's advice and unchecked "Use Media Browser to locate files" in the Link Media dialogue. Then, using Joe_wpi's advice above, once it was reconnected I right-clicked and selected "Edit Original". And even though the active AE project was already open, AE  closed it and opened it again. Now saving the AE does not cause the dynamic link to go offline.

You can see in the PPro Project Panel, if you have the File Path metadata column activated, that it shows different Finder addresses for AEP files that work and ones that have the issue.

[Leigh-DTP]

I also meant to mention that both my PPro and AE are the same version, but the problem had persisted until I followed the procedure above.

[Joe_wpi]

Glad it worked for you aswell @Leigh-DTP  I think its something to do with how the Mac file system works. You can see it for yourself when hit edit orginal, look at the pathname change in the header bar of After Effects, its a subtle change, but it is different enough to disconnect the linked comps for whatever reason. Haven't encountered the same issue on my PC workstation.

[leonardc18823883]

Removing special characters such as à or é (Yes I'm French) in all folder names on the way and the project file names solved it for me as well. Thanks to Pedro Rabbi

[lpowaski]

I was having the same issue. Then I realized I was working in Premier 24, but after effects 23. After I updated after effects to 2024 it seems to be working for me.