Reload Footage

[MahaB82A]

I can understand Replace Footage which can be used to replace lost link. What is the pupose of Reload Footage? 

 

[Warren Heaton · Accepted solution]

Using File > Reload Footage tells After Effects that the source footage has been edited outside of After Effects since the last time the footage was loaded and forces the changes to appear.

Still image file formats are an excellent example of when this might be needed.  Let's say we tab out of After Effects and open an image used in our After Effects project in an image editor like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Photo, or Affinity Designer, make changes to the image, and then save.  When we return to After Effects, we'll likely still see the older version of the picture until we reload the footage.  

If we use Edit > Edit Original, After Effects should reload footage automatically upon returning to After Effects.  If for some reason it doesn't, we can use Reload Footage to do so.

[MahaB82A]

Thanks for the explanation. 

[aman31659436a1pu]

Thank you pvery much

[steveignite]

Is there ever going to be an equivalent feature in Premiere? Often I know I've edited stuff outside of Premiere, but it doesn't show up in the Program window. The options are to delete the cache, or quit and reload Premiere. It'd be great if there was a refresh/reload media button like this in Premiere.

[Warren Heaton]

Do you mean something other than File > Reload Footage?

[steveignite]

I mean in Premiere. It's a very useful feature in After Effects. Premiere lets you relink, make offline, replace footage, but it doesn't have a straightforward reload footage feature like After Effects does.

[Warren Heaton]

Right-click > Replace Footage in Premiere Pro.

[steveignite]

And then replace it with the same file again? I know there are times I've tried either that, or even making files offline and relinking them again, but my experience is that sometimes Premiere still doesn't 'realise' that the file (or an image sequence) has changed - even after re-linking it again (though of course, 99% of the time, it does).

So it carries on playing either the cache or whatever version it has in memory from previously. Sometimes forcing it by replacing the footage with itself does work, but not every time.

Quitting and reloading is still the quickest way to force Premiere to 'realise' a change, but being able to tell it to reload a specific file in the bin, just like you can in AE (which itself refreshes most of the time without having to be 'told') would be better.