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Jon Grimson
Inspiring
October 30, 2018
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are smart object psd supported in premiere pro

  • October 30, 2018
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I am trying to find a smart object workflow from Photoshop into PP. Reason is there are still images that need to be edited into a documentary but they are not final images and still need color correction and retouching in Photoshop and/or Lightroom. Additionally would like lower res images to edit with in PP and smart object link back to higher res files that can be edited later. Is some version of this workflow possible?

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Correct answer Jarle Leirpoll

Just a thought – I haven't tried this, but it might work as a manual "proxy" solution:

  1. Use Smart Objects in Photoshop to store the full res files in 4k PSDs.
  2. Copy all the PSD files to another folder named "PSD proxies"
  3. Flatten those files, which makes them 4k
  4. Import the flattened files in Premiere.
  5. When the original files are graded and finished, make the "proxy" files offline, and re-link to the originals.

And I just have to mention this: DPI is totally irrelevant. Only pixels count.

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
October 30, 2018

I don't believe so. You can try it of course, but ... I don't think PrPro has any way to relate to SmartObjects.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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Jon GrimsonAuthor
Inspiring
October 30, 2018

Thanks Neil, pretty sure it doesn't work. Any suggestions to achieve what I am describing? It's basically like dynamic linking of an AE project but needs to be backward-editable via PS or LR. So if I edit, keyframe, resize still images into a video sequence in PP I want preserve that work and to be able to relink to full res, color-corrected image files that I am getting from somebody else. But I want to avoid, manually re-setting all keyframe and motion parameters. I wish it were like proxies or dynamic link. Any ideas?

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Jarle LeirpollCorrect answer
Legend
October 31, 2018

Just a thought – I haven't tried this, but it might work as a manual "proxy" solution:

  1. Use Smart Objects in Photoshop to store the full res files in 4k PSDs.
  2. Copy all the PSD files to another folder named "PSD proxies"
  3. Flatten those files, which makes them 4k
  4. Import the flattened files in Premiere.
  5. When the original files are graded and finished, make the "proxy" files offline, and re-link to the originals.

And I just have to mention this: DPI is totally irrelevant. Only pixels count.

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