In
the past, sharing media assets among post-production applications
has required you to render your work in one application before importing
it into another—an inefficient and time-consuming workflow. If you
wanted to make changes in the original application, you had to re
render the asset. Multiple rendered versions of an asset consume
disk space and can lead to file-management challenges.
Dynamic Link, a feature of Adobe Creative Suite® Production
Premium and Master Collection, offers an alternative to this workflow:
the ability to create dynamic links between After Effects, Adobe
Premiere Pro, Encore, and Soundbooth. Creating a dynamic link is as simple as
importing any other type of asset, and dynamically linked assets
appear with unique icons and label colors to help you identify them.
Dynamic links are saved in project, composition, and document files
generated by these applications.
Changes you make in After Effects to a dynamically linked composition
appear immediately in the linked clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore,
or Soundbooth. Changes you make to dynamically linked sequences
in Adobe Premiere Pro appear immediately in After Effects, Encore,
and Soundbooth. You don’t have to render or save changes first.
Note: Dynamic Link is a one-way delivery mechanism from one application
to another. You can't pass information back and forth between two
applications at the same time.
For a video tutorial on Dynamic Link, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4108_xp.
Tim Kolb provides a video tutorial on the Adobe website that shows the use of Dynamic
Link with Premiere Pro, Encore, and After Effects to creative an
interactive DVD menu.�
Linking to and from Adobe Premiere Pro
You
can send selected clips from Adobe Premiere Pro into After Effects
as a composition or nested composition, replacing the clips in Adobe
Premiere Pro with a dynamically linked composition.
With Dynamic
Link, you can also send sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro into Encore
for authoring to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or SWF files.
Other
ways to share content among Production Premium applications include copying
and pasting between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, exporting
After Effects projects to Adobe Premiere Pro, using the Capture
In Adobe Premiere Pro command in After Effects, and importing Adobe
Premiere Pro projects into After Effects. You cannot, however, import
an Adobe Premiere Pro project into After Effects if the project
contains a dynamic link to an After Effects composition. For more
information, see the relevant sections of each application’s Help
documents.
Linking to and from After Effects
When
you dynamically link to an After Effects composition from Adobe
Premiere Pro, Encore, or Soundbooth, it appears in the host application’s
Project panel. You can use the dynamically linked composition as
you would any other asset. When you insert a linked composition
into the host application timeline, a linked clip—which is simply
a reference to the linked composition in the Project panel—appears
in the Timeline panel. After Effects renders the linked composition
on a frame‑by‑frame basis during playback in the host application.
In
Adobe Premiere Pro, you can preview a dynamically linked After Effects composition
in the Source Monitor, set In and Out points, add it to a sequence, and
use Adobe Premiere Pro tools to edit it. When you add a linked composition that
contains both video and audio to a sequence, Adobe Premiere Pro
inserts linked video and audio clips in the timeline. You can unlink
the video from the audio to edit the clips separately.
In
Encore, you can use a dynamically linked After Effects composition
to create a motion menu, or you can insert it into a timeline and
use Adobe Encore tools to edit it. When you add a linked After Effects
composition that contains both video and audio to an Encore timeline,
Encore inserts separate video and audio clips in the timeline.
Outside of Dynamic Link, you can create After Effects
compositions from Encore menus.
Linking to Soundbooth
In Soundbooth, you
can dynamically link to After Effects compositions and Adobe Premiere
Pro sequences. The resulting video previews provide helpful visual
references for audio edits.
