Replace with after effects composition how to not have separate compositions for each text

I think some of the replies have misunderstood this. The issue is that any text in premiere is placed into a nested comp with just that one layer in. It'd be nice to have the option for it to just be in the main comp, and not have loads of separate nested comps.

Workflow-wise, I have a captioned clip in Premiere. I'd like to play around with the subtitles to make them a bit more interesting. So, I've converted the captions to graphics, then selected them all and clicked "replace with After Effects Composition". What's created in AE is one main comp, with as many nested comps as there are subtitle lines, each containing one text graphic. This is unecessarily cumbersome - all the timings are in the sub comps - it means I have to go through all those comps, and copy and paste the text layer back into the main comp. And then just delete the nested comps.

It'd be nice to have the option to tell dynamic link not to bother nesting the text. I guess this behaviour is because the text is a graphic, and so it's nesting each of those graphics with their content. But workflow-wise, if you ever want to animate captions in AE, it's clunky. Unless there's another workaround I don't know of?

If you want to be able to use the same graphic style and animation you create in After Effects but change the actual text and even the timing in Premiere Pro, you need to change the AE workspace to Extended Graphics (much more efficient than just opening the Extended Graphics Panel) after you polish your first Dynamic Link composition. Then study up on Extended Graphics and create a MOGRT that you can Add to Premiere Pro and use there. For my last industrial film project, I created a set of 4 different MOGRTs that had dropdown menus that positioned the graphics for three different Social Media frame sizes as well as HD and 4K, let me adjust the timing and the text or captions, fine-tune the timing and transitions, and with some of them, even enter multiple lines of sub-text or captions. They all started with a single Dynamic Link Comp from the Premiere Pro timeline. 

Start here: Create Motion Graphics templates with the Essential Graphics panel - Adobe Inc.

I didn't find an absolutely amazing MOGRT tutorial, but this one is pretty good:

Unless I completely misunderstand your workflow, creating your own custom MOGRT is the only sensible way to do what you are trying to do.

Have you tried using an Adjusment Layer?  After selecting all of the Graphics and choosing Replace with After Effects Composition in Premeire Pro, choose Layer > New > Adjustment Layer in After Effects (make sure you're in the Composioint that contains all of the nested Comps).  Then apply effects to that.

Of course, for things like After Effects Text Animators, you'll have to drill down into the nested Comps.

To do this quickly, use the Mini-Flowchart View to go from the contaitning Comp to the nested Comps and back again:

1. Press Tab to bring up the Mini-Flowchart View.
2. Press the right arrow to go to the list of nested Comps, then the up or down arrow to select the nested Comp that you want to open, and then press Enter.
3. Make your creative adjustments in the nested Comp.
4. Press Tab to bring up the Mini-Flowchart View and this time press left arrow to select the containg Comp and then Enter to return to it.

Using "I" to go to the In of a selected layer and "O" to go to the Out of a selected layer is also helpful.

Another approach is to export the Captions as an SRT file instead of upgrading them to Graphics.  Then use the free script (with registration) from Digital Anarachy to import an SRT into After Effects as a single Text Layer in a Composition.  Style that and then overwrite the Comp into your Premiere Pro Timeline. 

If you need to add fancy text, do it in AE outright. There's a ton of scripts on AEScripts.com that can help with creating text from markers or imported text files and even without them it sure would be more intuitive to do it inb AE right away. you can even add markers in Premiere and convert them to AE native markers, if timing reference is required...

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