
It’s worth noting that Dynamic Link works even when After Effects is closed. These are both massive timesavers! After Effects is running-even when it’s not Or dragging an After Effects comp with motion graphics into Premiere Pro so that any changes you make in After Effects are automatically and instantly updated in the Premiere Pro timeline.

What Dynamic Link can doĪ very common way to use Dynamic Link is sending a clip from Premiere Pro to After Effects to alter the footage or add visual effects. Using Dynamic Link also means you’re creating fewer media files on disk. The main goal with Dynamic Link is to minimize rendering time. Sometimes this happens in real time, but if it’s a complex comp it may need to be rendered before you get smooth playback. When you move the Premiere Pro playhead over a dynamically linked comp clip, Premiere Pro asks for a frame from the After Effects comp, and After Effects says: “here you go” and delivers the frame.

So what is Dynamic Link?Įssentially, Dynamic Link turns After Effects into a frame server for Premiere Pro.

Use the right workflow and Dynamic Link will most likely work flawlessly. Users were experiencing After Effects compositions (comps) going offline, having to re-link comps every time they opened a project, slow performance, color differences, etc.Īt first it was unclear what was going on, but watching some screen recordings of these issues revealed that at least some of the problems were self-induced and avoidable. After reading some posts, especially on the Premiere Pro user forum and in Facebook groups about Premiere Pro, I realized that Dynamic Link is being underutilized because of the problems some people have.
