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The render and replace workflow for After Effects

The render and replace workflow for After Effects

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The render and replace workflow for After Effects

- Adobe Dynamic Link is a truly useful feature, but because it's going to tax the system with heavy RAM usage, eventually you should start to make commitments and swap things for new video files. Let me show you. In this case we've got an effect applied and this was done earlier, well I'm going to undo here and just go back to where we previously where with no effect, but instead I'm going to add something from After Effects. Now you can do this with Dynamic Link or just take advantage here of the option to bring in something, so I'll choose to import in After Effects comp. In this case, I'll navigate on my hard drive to the project folder and I'm going to select, from the AEP folder, the logo. This is the one we previously built. Once I select the project, it scans the project and should locate the composition inside. Now what I can do is select the comp and choose okay, and it's added to my project. Now, I can load that as a source in the source monitor. In this case I see there's…

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