Best way to work with Premier and AE

[delfinak5]

Hello,

I have created a movie in Premier pro and would like to add some additional stuff to some of the sequences in After Effects, what would be the best way to do this? By importing the entire movie from Premier to AE? create the finishing edits and then save the final project? or should I work on 1 individual clip in AE and then transfer to Premier pro?

[R Neil Haugen]

Typically this is done by having the matched versions of PrPro & AfterEffects on the computer, and the sections of a sequence you need to work in AE you right-click, and select "Replace with After Effects Composition". That sends that bit over to Ae, where you work ... and when done, save & close out.

With the 'dynamic link' that PrPro & AE have, this updates that section of the sequence to what you've done in AE.

With some types of work, it's easier to just open the clip in AE, do the work, and then export a high-quality digital intermediate file to import in PrPro and use to replace the original clip.

Neil

[Roei Tzoref]

Neil's workflow is the way to go. at least as far as transfering your clip to Ae.

when right clicking on a clip and selecting "replace with After Effects Composition", if you do not have an Ae open then Premiere will ask you to create and project file or open the premiere clip in the opened instance of your Ae. this project will contain a composition with the exact duration and frame rate you had in premiere. now you are left with a choice:

1. keep working dynamically where you do something in Ae, and it immediately updates in premiere (save is good practice, but it updates even without it. just remember to save before you close...)

or

2. right after the clip has been transferred to Ae, you hit undo so you are back with the original clip, and go on in Ae from there to finish your work and render a digital intermediate video that will replace the original in Premiere.

Personally, unless you are doing very lightweight effects that really benefits from back and forth between the two apps, I would chose option #2. I try to be as less dependable on stable dynamic link as I can.

[Ann Bens]

2. right after the clip has been transferred to Ae, you hit undo so you are back with the original clip, and go on in Ae from there to finish your work and render a digital intermediate video that will replace the original in Premiere.

That is what I do .

Or instead, duplicate the clip, superimpose, give it some handles and send it to AE. Then undo the AE comp.

[R Neil Haugen]

As Roei and Ann have both alluded to, although you "can" work in Dynamic Link, where anything you do in AE auto-updates to the clip section back in PrPro, it takes more hardware resources and well ... at times just gets plain cranky.

Which is why it's so often wiser to work a clip in AE and then export and replace the media in PrPro. While there's some of AE code "built" into PrPro to enable this, the two apps are SO different in coding structure it's better to work them separately when one can, just for practical reasons.

That said ... back to Roei's comment ... a simple short comp that you're going to make changes on over time ... may be best left as a Dynamic Link process.

Neil

[Byron Cortez]

Hi delfinak5​

Here you have a short text that you need to read ASAP to understand Dynamic Link, the best Workflow between Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Share media between Premiere Pro and After Effects using Adobe Dynamic Link

Regards!