From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post

Dynamic linking between Premiere Pro and After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post

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Dynamic linking between Premiere Pro and After Effects

- [Instructor] Dynamic linking is a way for Premiere and After Effects to communicate with each other in such a way that the two applications can share the same media and can help avoid intermediate renders. By using dynamic link, we can continue on with our creative changes and hold off until the very end to commit to a render, all while seeing our After Effects work in the context of our edit. In this movie, we'll take a look at how dynamic linking works. So here in Premiere, I have a simple sequence with four clips that I'd like to send over to After Effects, and in order to do that, all I have to do is simply select the clips. In right-click, I move down to Replace with After Effects Composition. We're being asked to save a brand new After Effects project, and I'll go ahead and overwrite what I have here previously. I'll say Save and After Effects will open up, it'll have a brand new composition for us, along with the four shots from Premiere and you'll see it's sequenced out exactly the same. And if we pop back over to Premiere, you'll notice that we now have, instead of our four clips, we have one After Effects composition and here's our After Effects composition as a footage item inside of our project. So these two things are live linked and whatever changes I make inside of After Effects will update inside of Premiere. So let's go ahead and create a new text layer, and we'll just say HELLO. Here we go. Without even saving it, let's move back into Premiere, and you'll see that the timeline automatically updates with my change. And so I can play through this and now we have the ability to view this composition in the context of our edit. Through dynamic link, we saw how updated elements created in After Effects can pass through into Premiere without rendering, thus allowing us to refine our creative direction in the context of the edit.

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