From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Dynamic Link and the Adobe Workflow

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What can't Dynamic Link do?

What can't Dynamic Link do?

- There are two key limitations that you should know about Dynamic Link technology. The first will make sense when I tell you, you can't double-link something. What I mean is, for example, if you put an After Effects composition inside of a Premier Pro project using Dynamic Link, and then sent that Premier Pro project into After Effects with an embedded dynamic link inside, it's not going to work. You also can't double dynamic-link something. Taking something that's already a Dynamic Link comp and sticking it inside of another comp, that can cause problems. What we're looking at here is really, you don't want to make double loops here. You don't want to try to make too many connections, as there could be trouble when there's handoff with assets, preview files, and render files. But for almost every situation, this isn't a problem. Another thing you need to be mindful of is the project management capabilities of each application. Dynamic Link compositions, and media that's used inside…

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