{"id":646,"date":"2015-06-22T20:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/?p=646"},"modified":"2016-08-16T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T21:23:53","slug":"the-adobe-app-linking-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/the-adobe-app-linking-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adobe App Linking Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never Use this one.
\n\"ae-link-not\"
\n<\/strong>Only use Direct linking one way;\u00a0out of\u00a0Pr to Ae, Ps, or\u00a0Au. The Adobe apps\u00a0really fight each other on the same system, the “famous” workaround on the web is to only work in one App at the same time.<\/a>\u00a0Also with\u00a0more than 4 dynamically linked clips, those clips will usually come up “media pending”. Renders of an unrendered Ae composition on a Pr timeline are laughably slow even on the best machine. “Render and replace”\u00a0is also extremely slow.
\n<\/a>Read Adobe’s official\u00a0Cross-application workflows here.<\/a>
\nMy App Linking workflow is this:
\n1. Drag VFX clip up.
\n2. Drag out some handle if you think you need it for transitions.
\n2. Right-click > replace with Ae comp.
\n\"ae2-not\"
\nsame with Ps for stills
\n\"ps-not\"<\/a>
\n3. Save the AE project next to your Pr project. Consolidate & Collect files if you want to move the project to another drive.
\n4. Copy & Paste Timeline TC\u00a0as comp name \u00a0in AE
\nMake>10;23;45;16\u00a0into 102345.\u00a0You only need the first 6 digits and can’t have the semicolon as part of the name.
\n5. Back in PR undo 1x to remove link to AE and linked clip in project.
\nYou can work in Ae or Ps standalone with Pr closed or the other way around.
\nYou are still dynamically linked to the footage in Ae or Ps, but there is no link in\u00a0Pr, which\u00a0causes most of the problems.
\nDo your VFX in AE, but leave Color Correct, Titling, trimming etc in Pr.
\n6.\u00a0Render out matching the codec, frame size etc.
\n\"linkwhirl\"The fastest way to render<\/strong> in any of the Adobe apps is standalone but with a beefy machine you can drag Ae Comps to Adobe Media Encoder for rendering while working.<\/p>\n

7. Import clip into Pr and replace the clip in the timeline.
\n8. If there is\u00a0a change to the comp in Ae, render out replacing the file with the same name.
\nThe Pr timeline will automatically update to the latest render because it doesn’t “know” the file was\u00a0swapped.
\nIf\u00a0you expect a lot of revisions on VFX work,\u00a0export all the clips from Pr with handle to\u00a0a folder on your media drive, relink all clips in Pr to those clips and render and replace as usual.\u00a0Time spend doing these extra steps\u00a0is gained in the end\u00a0by crashing less.<\/p>\n

If you ever have to use Direct Link between Pr & Ae\u00a0on\u00a0the timeline, close Ae before switching back to Pr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sg-not\"The best Direct Link in the suite is the “either-or” exchange between Pr and Sg<\/a> (Speed Grade). This is not a direct link like the others. You add Lumetri effects to clips in the 12-way color corrector in Speed grade, close the project in Sg, open it in Pr and continue editing. This truly saves a lot of time because you can color correct as you go.<\/p>\n

For final file exports, export\u00a0straight out of Pr<\/strong>, not using dynamic linking.
\nFor intermediate exports\u00a0AME is fine as long as you check the files for gitches before sending out.
\nGlitches are caused by dynamic linking having to pass too much metadata between apps. You have to understand that when you send a timeline with hundreds of edits with adjustment layers and filters.\u00a0Dynamic linking\u00a0has to pass all that information to the other App in the background applied to the footage in order to render all the frames correct. It’s a great idea, but understand that there is a limit.
\n\"pr-use-preview\"If your preview codec matches your media files<\/a> you can check “Use Previews” which will significantly speed up exports by not having to re-render. It can be a double edged sword though, because when the preview files are a lower quality like “I-frame Only MPEG<\/strong>” then you’ll render lower quality footage into the file.<\/p>\n

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Never Use this one. Only use Direct linking one way;\u00a0out of\u00a0Pr to Ae, Ps, or\u00a0Au. The Adobe apps\u00a0really fight each other on the same system, the “famous” workaround on the web is to only work in one App at the same time.\u00a0Also with\u00a0more than 4 dynamically linked clips, those clips will usually come up “media … Read moreThe Adobe App Linking Workflow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-premiere-info","category-mikes-tips","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editspecialists.com\/pr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}