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Ting8
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February 21, 2020
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How to pack Dynamic Links After Effects file's footage in Premiere? collect files/ project manager

  • February 21, 2020
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How to collect After Effects Dynamic Links files in Premiere Pro?

I'm using cc2020.

In my Premiere Pro project, I use replace footage with After Effects Composition, which is dynamic link.

In the end, when I use project manager in Premiere Pro to collect files, it has After effect file in the folder, but it didn't collect After Effects footage.

I then have to click dependencies in After Effects to collect footages.

However, if I open the Premiere pro project, it wont link to the After Effect in the folder with footage.

Is there some way I can pack my footage without collect them from both PR, and AE, and then link those dynamic links again manually?

Can I pack AE footage as well with PR's project manager?
please help me if you know how to do!

Thank you very much in advance.

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    X28
    Inspiring
    May 9, 2024

    I'll export After Effects Composition and replace the entire clip in Premiere... So that I can give to someone else to continue to edit.

    dv1234
    dv1234
    Participant
    March 10, 2021

    HI

    what I  do is

    - collect the prem project

    - collect the afx project

    - then relink the prem project you collected and delete the one it creates for you in the  managed/collected  prem folder files

    you may have to relink  1 piece of media, to find all the rest 

     

    cheers

    D

     

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      AdamTow_OliverColab
      Participant
      April 30, 2021

      +1 to your approach. I get that it's not a perfect system, but I think this works the best (and doesn't require a kind of tedious pre-render of the compositions)

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      Steve221
      Inspiring
      July 20, 2021

      ... and then manually gather all PSD and AI files.

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      February 21, 2020

      The Project Manager doesn't really function well when trying to bring something in from Ae, which is a different program entirely. And then there's always issues with dynamic linked comps within a current project ... which are bad enough.

       

      So I skip that mess by exporting replacement media from Ae to replace the comps on the sequences in Premiere. Then that Premiere project no longer "needs" a link to Ae.

       

      I would recommend that process always for archiving projects. And if you wanted to be able to revisit the Ae project while reopening a Pr project, move the Ae project file into a parent folder of the project with your Pr project file.

       

      Neil

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