About Adobe Dynamic Link (Adobe Production Studio Only) - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

Specify a file name and location for the project, and click Save.
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Note: You can also import Adobe Premiere Pro projects into After Effects. (See "To import an Adobe Premiere Pro
project" on page 94.)
See also
"Copying from After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows only)" on page 126

About Adobe Dynamic Link (Adobe Production Studio only)

Until now, 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.
Adobe Dynamic Link, a feature of Adobe Production Studio, offers an alternative to this workflow: the ability to
create dynamic links, without rendering, between new or existing compositions in After Effects and either Adobe
Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore DVD. Creating a dynamic link is as simple as importing any other type of asset, and
dynamically linked compositions appear with unique icons and label colors to help you identify them. Dynamic links
are saved as part of the Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore DVD project.
Changes you make to a dynamically linked composition in After Effects appear immediately in the linked files in
Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore DVD; you don't have to render the composition or even save changes first.
When you link to an After Effects composition, it appears in the target product's Project panel. You can use the linked
composition as you would any other asset. When you insert a linked composition into the target product's 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 target product.
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In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can preview the linked composition in the Source Monitor, set In and Out points, add
it to a sequence, and use any of the Adobe Premiere Pro tools to edit it. When you add a linked composition that
contains both footage and audio layers to a sequence, Adobe Premiere Pro inserts linked video and audio clips in
the timeline. (You can unlink these to edit them separately; search for "To unlink video and audio" in Adobe
Premiere Pro Help.)
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In Adobe Encore DVD, you can use the linked composition to create a motion menu or insert it into a timeline,
and use any of the Adobe Encore DVD tools to edit it. When you add a linked composition that contains both
video and audio layers to an Adobe Encore DVD timeline, Adobe Encore DVD inserts separate video and audio
clips in the timeline.
Other ways to share content among Production Studio 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, creating After Effects compositions from Adobe Encore DVD menus, or
importing Adobe Premiere Pro projects into After Effects. For more information, see the relevant product's Help.
For a tutorial on Adobe Dynamic Link, go to Adobe Studio on the Adobe website.
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Adobe Help Center, and then click Check For Updates. Follow the on-screen instructions.
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