Backup Dynamic Link Projects

[lessdauphins]

All my projects are made up of After effects comps arranged in Premier Pro via dynamic link. I have all the project files and assets in folders in my CC folder. I want to back up all my finished projects into cold storage on my computer. So in Ae i have removed unused files and collected the projects into new folders on my HD. But I need to backup the Premier Pro projects as well. But if I just move it to the HD then all the dynamic links will be pointing to the original Ae locations not the backed up ones right? So How do I go about backing up my projects so the dynamic links dont break?

[R Neil Haugen]

That's ... an interesting question. I'm not sure you can, really. I'll be very interested to see if someone has a suggestion! Another place to ask would be on the AfterEffects forum ...

Neil

[RobShultz]

If there is no future editing needed on your AE Dynamic Link files you can select them and then go to clip/render and replace and convert them to a video. Then use project manager.

Unfortunately Premiere doesn't save backups of AE projects with Project Manager.

[R Neil Haugen]

That's what I was sort of expecting, really. It's what I typically have done with an Ae comp, as the "dynamic link" is pretty fragile, really. So in general I finish a comp (mine are relatively simple too!) and then export out a 'full' video file so I can have the full quality without fear of D-L failure.

Neil