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Offline compositions and Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)



Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore display dynamically linked compositions as offline in any of the following circumstances:

  • You’ve renamed, moved, or deleted the After Effects project that contains the composition.

  • You’ve purposely taken the composition offline.

  • You’ve opened the project that contains the composition on a system on which Production Premium or Master Collection isn’t installed.

  • You’re working with a project trimmed by the Adobe Premiere Pro Project Manager. Project Manager does not move the After Effects source compositions to the trimmed project folder. You must do this manually.

Offline compositions appear with an Offline icon  in the Adobe Premiere Pro Project panel. In Encore, the thumbnail preview displays the Offline icon when an offline asset is selected in the Project panel. If you’re working with an offline composition, you can relink it to the original After Effects composition. You can also choose to relink a linked composition to a different source composition.

Take a dynamically linked composition offline

You can take a dynamically linked composition offline if low system resources are preventing you from smoothly playing back or previewing, or if you want to share your project without having to open it on a system with Production Premium or Master Collection installed. When you take a composition offline, you sever the dynamic link with After Effects, and the linked composition is replaced in the Project panel with an offline composition.

You can temporarily suppress a linked clip in Adobe Premiere Pro by selecting the clip and choosing Clip > Enable. To relink the clip, choose Clip > Enable again (a check mark next to the command indicates that the clip is enabled). For more information about disabling clips, see Adobe Premiere Pro Help.
  1. In Adobe Premiere Pro, select the composition in the Project panel.
  2. Choose Project > Make Offline.

Relink a dynamically linked composition

 Do one of the following:

  • In Adobe Premiere Pro, select the composition and choose Project > Link Media. In the Import Composition dialog box, choose an After Effects project, and then choose a composition.

  • In Encore, right-click the composition and choose Locate Asset. In the Locate Asset dialog box, locate the composition you want to link to, and then click Select (Windows) or Open (Mac OS).