5D mark iii footage issues and Dynamic link workflow

[randomname]

Hi guys,

I'm in the process of switching to premiere from final cut and I had a few questions. I'm really loving Dynamic Link, but am having a hard time figuring out the proper workflow for it. First, once I send a clip or group of clips to after effects, is there any way to edit the individual clips in premiere again? Also, how do I set it to not require me to have the composition open in after effects to be able to see it in premiere?

Secondly, I've had a couple people mention that they're having some fairly serious issues editing my 5D Mkiii footage. It gives the "general error" message whenever I try to edit it in Final Cut, and I've had a few people tell me that it crashes premiere on their PC when they try to import it. I haven't had any issues editing it with premiere on my mac, though.

 

[Bruce Watson]

I'm really loving Dynamic Link, but am having a hard time figuring out the proper workflow for it. First, once I send a clip or group of clips to after effects, is there any way to edit the individual clips in premiere again? Also, how do I set it to not require me to have the composition open in after effects to be able to see it in premiere?

I think of the Abobe suite as Premiere Pro centric. If you look at it as if PPro is the center and everything else is arrayed around it, it makes it easier to visualize (at least for me). I think of pushing things from PPro to other applications...

That said, the "normal" way to work with dynamic linking is, from inside PPro, to click on one or more clips in the sequence, then "File...Adobe Dynamic Link...Replace with After Effects Composition". This will bring up AE, and you'll immediately have to name and locate this new AE project (I find it easiest to put it in the same directory as the PPro project). Then, build your composition as you want -- save what you've done, switch back to PPro, and you'll see it there. There is sometimes a small delay, but it's generally pretty quick. You don't have to have AE open after you've done your composition, but PPro will use the "headless" parts of AE while you are editing a dynamically linked AE composition -- and you'll feel this in PPro because editing will get slow, sometimes very very slow.

And this is why it's generally nicer to do all you're going to do in PPro before you start replacing bits and pieces with AE comps. Which is another reason I think of the Adobe suite as PPro centric.