Dynamic Link in AE - Frame Hold

Its not ideal, but I have an easy workaround for the frame hold issue.

Find the frame you want, the click the Export Frame button under your program.

Save the image and import it into your project, then drag it to whatever duration you want to frame hold. The image should stay static when you dynamic link in AE.

It would be nice to have some sort of flatten video clip option where you could bake in effects, maybe one day. Maybe with the option to create a new file next to the original footage, that way you don't overwrite it.

Same problem. I have a bunch of screen captured clips of webpages where I needed to re-create the mouse movement (yes, it's not optimal but this is how it goes). For rough versions I did everything in Premiere, making frame hold segments and masking and animating from there. Now that I want to fine tune and finalise my animations in AE I need to create new freeze frames for my clips?

Upon progressing further, I'm noticing none of my time adjustments are transferring to AE. So I need to speed up my clips again as well.

Working on Premiere CC 12.0.0 and AE CC 15.0.0

Hope someone has insight on this.

Cheers!