After Effects Dynamic Link Breaks
Since the 2021 update, every time I go to After Effects and back to Premiere, every single dynamic link for every composition pertaining to my project breaks. This isn't just exiting and restarting the program (which should no doubt be fine anyways) but by simply hitting save on After effects and switching the window back to premiere.
This bug is absurd as the compositions need to be re-linked every time and is massively infuriating.
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lawrence evans
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My workaround for this is mainly to make sure you are using the exact same original AE file, as in don't rename it when making different versions, make a copy when you feel like you need to create versions.
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Charlie Whitehouse
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I have updated today and having the same issue, running Premiere 15.4.1 and Ae 18.4.1 on MacOS 10.15.7. Just discovered that closing Premiere and re-opening it re-finds the links and is fine, so save in Ae, breaks in Premiere, restart premiere it searches and finds everything fine. It's a workaround but not good.
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Rob Chan
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Still having this problem, both Premiere and AFX in most recent forms
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Movie Trailer
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Brooks O'Kelley, Hello.
Everything should be fine in the latest version 15.4 Premier. I personally tested it. Why you can't do it, most likely different versions of Premiere and After Effects. Check on the official Adobe website. -
Brooks O'Kelley
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I just updated to the most recent versions of both After Effects and Premiere and this is still happening. Like others, when both are open and I save a linked file in AE, the links are broken in Premiere. Adobe, please fix.
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Movie Trailer
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Hello. In update 15.4, it was fixed. I checked it myself and did a Promo in conjunction with AE. The dynamic link works and is interrupted as it was before. I have been going back to the project in Premiere for several days now and the link is always active and there is no need to link with AE.
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Benjamin Chertoff
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Same. Randomly an entire AE-project full of links breaks in Premiere. Easy to re-link, but a massive PITA to have to do it all the time. Seems to be a new issue with AE2021 and PP2021.
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Steven Probets
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I actually wiped my iMac and reinstalled everything including the OS. Seems to be working well actually. Not the workaround people want to hear but it has worked for me.
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Scott Crozier
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Major instabiltiy in dynamic link in the new versions. I have this bug and others that is making dynamic link borderline unusable. Any project with a dynamic link cranks up a background AE process to 100% CPU even when the playhead is parked.
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lawrence evans
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Just started using Premiere 2021, and had this problem start straight away.
I never had this issue before now.
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David Rosenthal
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I have the same issue. I'm constantly relinking the project.
update:
…and I've already solved it in my case, turns out that when Adobe updated the AE application it left the old one, and that was causing confusion. I deleted 2020 app and all is fine again.
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Alex Sims
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What I've noticed now, is that the link doesn't always break when you're in the premiere project, but as soon as you open up after effects to pick up where you left off, the problem persists once you click save in after effects.
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Louise Nylund
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I have had this problem since some time before the 2021 update, started months ago.
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Steven Probets
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Been like this for ages ......