Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 52)

46 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Workflows, planning, and setup
Last updated 12/21/2009
Create and link to After Effects compositions with Dynamic Link (Production
Premium or Master Collection only)
Create a composition from clips in Adobe Premiere Pro
You can replace selected clips in Adobe Premiere Pro with a dynamically linked After Effects composition based on
those clips. The new composition inherits the sequence settings from Adobe Premiere Pro.
1 In a sequence, select the clips you want in the composition.
2 Right-click any of the selected clips.
3 Select Replace With After Effects Composition.
Link to a new composition
When you link to a new composition from Adobe Premiere Pro or Encore, After Effects starts and creates a new project
and composition with the dimensions, pixel aspect ratio, frame rate, and audio sample rate of your Adobe Premiere
Pro or Encore project. (If After Effects is already running, it creates a new composition in the current project.) The
new composition name is based on the Adobe Premiere Pro or Encore project name, followed by Linked Comp [x].
Note: After Effects will not create a new composition by Dynamic Link if a composition is already open. Before creating
a Dynamic Link to a new composition from Adobe Premiere Pro, close all After Effects compositions. You can leave After
Effects itself open, however.
1 In Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore, choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > New After Effects Composition.
2 If the After Effects Save As dialog box appears, enter a name and location for the After Effects project, and click Save.
When you link to a new After Effects composition, the composition duration is set to 30 seconds. To change the
duration, select the composition in After Effects, choose Composition
> Composition Settings. Click the Basic tab, and
specify a new value for Duration.
Link to an existing composition
For best results, composition settings (such as dimensions, pixel aspect ratio, and frame rate) should match those used
in the Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore project.
❖ Do one of the following:
• In Adobe Premiere Pro or Encore, choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition. Choose
an After Effects project file (.aep), and then choose one or more compositions.
• In Adobe Premiere Pro, choose File > Import. Choose an After Effects project file and click Open, and then choose
a composition in the Import Composition dialog box and click OK.
• Drag one or more compositions from the After Effects Project panel to the Adobe Premiere Pro Project panel or
the Encore Project panel.
• Drag an After Effects project file into the Adobe Premiere Pro Project panel. If the After Effects project file contains
multiple compositions, the Import Composition dialog box opens.
Note: You can link to a single After Effects composition multiple times in a single Adobe Premiere Pro project. In an
Adobe Encore project, however, you can link to an After Effects composition only once.
Encore and After Effects: If you are linking to Adobe Dynamic Link compositions that were created using Create After
Effects Composition from Encore, turn off subpicture highlight layers in After Effects so that you can control their
display in Encore.