Dynamic Links in Premiere Go Offline When the After Effects File is Updated

[GregL2570]

I have 2 project files (1 After Effects & 1 Premiere Pro).  Both v24.5.0 running on Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 with 64GB RAM.  Both files are saved side by side within the same master project folder as per usual and my cache is 100% clear with 3TB of fully dedicated and available space.

All 14 Dynamic Link Comps from After Effects are perfectly synced and functioning as intended inside the Premiere companion project file.

Every time that I open the Premiere project, it only takes a few seconds for all the dynamic links to reconnect with their related After Effects project (which again lives side-by-side within the same directory). Once these dynamic links are all connected in Premiere, I then open the After Effect project file and everything still remains linked.

Here’s where everything breaks down: As soon as I make a single update to any comp and save changes within the After Effects project, all of the dynamic links inside the Premiere project immediately go offline and stay that way until I quit both After Effects and Premiere and then relaunch Premiere without opening the After Effects file. Now I know what you’re thinking, why not just right click on one of the dynamic links and select “Link Media…”? That should automatically reconnect all the other instances right? Wrong! It only reconnects to the single, selected comp. There’s clearly an issue here with the Adobe Dynamic Link Server that needs to be addressed.

Now I’ve been working with Dynamic Links for a very long time, and they’ve always just instantly updated inside the Premiere file when working with both files open. This is a bug. This behavior has never been an issue before and it’s extremely frustrating when trying to work efficiently. Surely this must be something very simple to reproduce and investigate for the Adobe software development teams. I’d really like to see this issue fixed ASAP. Dynamic Links are an incredibly awesome feature and should actually be “dynamic” as intended.

[Ben Insler]

Hi @GregL2570 - this is definitely not correct behavior, and sounds pretty annoying!

Any chance you can send the Premiere Pro .prproj and the After Effects .aep to me?  I'll see if I can reproduce the same behavior on my end given what you described above.  You can email them to me here.

Also, it's going to sound strange, but do you have Adobe Media Encoder installed?  It normally installs automatically when you install Premiere Pro and/or After Effects.

[Kevin-Monahan]

The status of this bug report has been updated.