Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Using Manual page 51

Last updated 12/21/2009
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
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.
More Help topics
www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4108_xp
www.adobe.com/go/learn_dv_tutorial_dynlink_en
Adobe website that shows the use of Dynamic Link with Premiere Pro,
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