How do dynamic links from After Effects behave when I archive a Premiere Pro project?

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I posted this in the Premiere Pro forum first but I was told to post it here:

I'm a beginner with PP and have a few projects that I've finished with it. My plan is to archive these projects. By that, I mean I want to have all the files they depend on copied into a single folder (and probably zipped) so that I can't accidentally break the prproj later by moving, deleting, replacing, or renaming files. I don't know how to do that yet, but I've been doing it with Camtasia for years to archive my old projects in case I ever need to render them again.

My situation is that I want to use aep files from After Effects in Premiere Pro. Because the rendered AVI files are huge (but I also don't want to lose quality before the final render), I used the "Adobe Dynamic Link" feature to get these elements from AE into PP. My question is: How does this behave when I later archive the project? Will the linked files be copied? Will the dynamic links stop working? And most importantly, will I achieve my result of not having a huge file create from After Effects?

Mylenium · Answer

DynamicLink is just a container in Premiere and so are MOGRTs/ Essential graphics. Aside from the explicitly exposed properties you can manipulate in Premiere, they are completely opaque and the program doesn't know what teh underlying AE engine actually does. That's why it won't collect anything from the Premiere side of things. You have to use AE's own File --> Dependencies --> Collect Files to really get everything in one place and after that still collect the Premiere stuff as well.

Mylenium

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