Premiere Pro 2022 - Dynamic Link Not working with After Effects

[JamieWoods]

After updating to PP 22, dynamic link with AE is not working. I've tried going to documents and putting OLD after dynamic link folder, but this did nothing.

This is so disappointing and am actually installing beta versions to finish a project. 

[Baffy19]

???

[Lusik142]

Dynamic links created in a new version also don't work. I have a file created with v.22. Everything seems to be fine when you create a link but it goes dowhill when trying to render the seqence or when you open the file after closing the project. Links either don't work or crash Premiere Pro Completely. 

I tired clearing Media Cache for both PP and AE but it did not help. 

[bsarfatty]

Open the After Effects project first. Then open Premiere.

[Lusik142]

I tried this and it did't work. I posted reply under one of the other posts. The problem in my case was solved temporarily by imporing all comps from differen .aep files into into one file and then importing these into the project. 

I will probably revert to the previous versoin but I had one project file that was created in v.22

[Baffy19]

Can any of the users answer my questions???

[Martin@AP]

Following advice from @Deleted User I got it to work too. Its not a permanent fix but will get you back to work.

Start after effects 2022 -> Open AE project that cannot be found in premiere.

Once the project is open, only THEN you should open the premrie project and it should be automatically relinked.

however even if you resave and try to open the premrie in other way, the link will be broken. Good to have extra ram on hand.

[dalv2021]

I can confirm I am also having this issue, installed Premiere Pro on a new MacBook Pro 2021 with M1 Pro Chip a couple of days ago and everytime I try to use Dynamic Link in Premiere it freezes and stops responding... really disappointing,

[Baffy19]

The Dynamic Link problem is observed in Imac users. I UNDERSTAND THAT??? respond

[MTMellott]

Can Adobe PLEASE start emailing users when they do something like this. I have wasted HOURS trying to get Premiere Pro 22 to work and now get to redo the project after I uninstall it. Why in god's name would you release a software update so prematurelt that it can't hand BASIC parts of production????????????

[CelloZug]

my words. crazy.

[Baffy19]

Use the Win 10 platform and you will be happy. Now the problem is observed in iMac users

[Paul Dumas]

Windows 10 is even less responsive than Mac for me.  The issue might not be universal, dynamic link is used in many different ways.  But it is clearly a widespread issue.

[defaultrgw2akgdeup8]

Exactly the same issue - AE comp loaded into the PR 2022 version are causing PR 2022 to hang so I have to force quit. I am rolling back to AE and PR v15 but this has wasted three hours so far ...

[mikem24003905]

I am experiencing the exact same issues. I have spent the day dealing with hangs, freezes, crashes. I finally gave in and rolled back to previous versions. I had 4 videos I updated in the PP V22. As a workaround, I opened them in V22 and exported those timelines as a Final Cut XML. Then reimport them to the previous version of Premiere. Now I am going thru the timeline and re linking AE comps, recreating graphics I created with the Premiere Graphics Panel. Very time consuming.

[defaultedfiqc4sohzm]

This is a problem and should be fixed ASAP. You obviously have alot of users here across computers, OSs, specs, etc. It was working completely fine yesterday in the previous version. Now after an auto-update I have lost almost a day of work.

[R Neil Haugen]

It would be good to get the data from the people having trouble with Ae dynamic links. Trying to sort out the possible probables for the problem.

First, on my system, it's working slick. This is a 24-core 3960X Threadripper with a 2080Ti running mostly Nvme and internal SSD drives.

I just took a BRAW clip from my BMPCC4K on a timeline in PrPro V22 ... 22.0.0 (build 169). "Replace with Ae comp" brought up Ae 22 ... 22.0.0 (build 111).

I added a text element, animated it with the CC Bend It effect, and Ae worked as-expected.

Back in Pr, the clip now showed the work of Ae. The timeline was jerky so I hit the Enter key for a render, and it's smooth as silk.

But that clearly is not happening for some of you. So ... more data is more good.

You computer kit as that may be a tiny to major part, no clue ... what OS and hardware do you have?

From the "About" windows, check the version and build numbers, include those.

The media ... what's on the sequence? Very specifically?

Let's see if something shows up regularly.

Neil

[Nick Kolotov]

Running Windows right?
All the issues are happening on MacOS computers.
Over the last couple of days i've sent tons of crash reports.
Dynamic link error freezes the Premiere and the only way to shut it down is to Force Quit.
Having multiple template Comps from different aep files inserted into Pr project makes it unusable.

[Nick Kolotov]

Forgot to add. MBP 16" i9, iOS Monterrey 
All the linked comps are simple graphics, like animated on-screen stickers or subs.

The problem repeats with all the aep comps inserted except the opened in parrallel in AE one.

[Baffy19]

Developers need to create an installation separately for each system: Win, Mac, Linux.

[Sailordude12]

I am having the same issues with linking and freezing. I uninstalled the entire Adobe Suite and CC and then did a clean reinstall. Still doesn't work. Apple Retina 5K (2019) iMac, 3.6Ghz i9, 128GB ram, 4TB SSD, Radeon Pro 5700XT 16GB.

Opened the same file son my HP laptop, no problems. Intel i7, 48GB ram, 2TB SSD, 2 TB SSD editing drive, 6GB NVIDIA Quadro 1000 video card. 

What the heck? Looks like I am heading back to the PC camp?

[R Neil Haugen]

Yowza!

Please post the information on their UserVoice system. That feeds directly to the engineering team and almost more importantly to the M&E people up above who make decisions based on metrics.

Neil

[Baffy19]

Dear Neil, I have one request for you: help me log into USERVOICE. I don't have a link coming in

[Lusik142]

I found a workaround that worked for me, but I lost 2 hours today trying ty find a solution.  Dynamic link problem occurs when more than one .aep file is linked. So in AE I imported compositions from other files that were originally linked to the project and then imported these comps (from a single .aep file) to Premiere Pro.

I am not sure if it will work after closing the project but at least I finally managed to start an export. 

[R Neil Haugen]

So it was with multiple Ae comps?

I'll try that.

Edit: added a second comp, even closed both apps and relaunched. The PrPro sequence played fine though after I closed Ae I had to re-render the clips.

After closing both and re-opening both, in Ae bringing back the comps, I could make changes and have them track normally in PrPro.

So what the HADES is happening to those systems plagued by this? Dang frustrating.

Neil

[Lusik142]

Yes, multiple AE comps. But it worked only as long as Premiere Pro and the project were open. When I reopened them a few hours later, it could not relink the AE comp automatically and I had to repeat the process described above. 

So there are actually two layers of the problem. 

1. Opening a project with dymamic links - these cannot be relinked automaticlaly. 

2. Adding comps from from different .aep files crahses the software. 

Tested on MacbookPro 15" Late 2016.