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Importing Media into Adobe Premiere Pro

Nov 29, 2012

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An Introduction to Adobe Dynamic Link

The principal goal with Dynamic Link is to minimize time lost from rendering or exporting. The beauty of Dynamic Link is that you can pass elements between applications in the Creative Suite and minimize your need to create extra media and renders. The functionality exists between several applications but behaves a little differently depending on the pair of apps being used. Dynamic Link is currently supported by the following Adobe products:

After Effects
Audition
Encore

Linking to and from Adobe After Effects

There are several ways to integrate Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects to easily exchange projects in both directions. This seamless ability to exchange files is driven by the role each application serves. After Effects provides Adobe Premiere Pro with advanced titling, compositing, and special effects. Adobe Premiere Pro adds robust audio controls and video capture to After Effects. Here are a few workflows worth trying.

You can work with After Effects in three general ways.

Replace with After Effects Composition. You can select clips in a sequence and then choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Replace with After Effects Composition. The clips are exchanged with After Effects, and a new linked composition is created. We explore this workflow in Chapter 12.
New After Effects Composition. If you need a blank canvas (for example, to create an animated title), you can choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > New After Effects Composition. An empty composition will open in After Effects. Save your content in After Effects when you’re done, and the Adobe Premiere Pro link will update the content in your project or sequence. We explore this workflow in Chapter 13, “Creating Titles.”
Import After Effects Composition. In Adobe Premiere Pro you can choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition to bring an After Effects composition into an Adobe Premiere Pro project. Once added, the After Effects composition will look and behave like any other clip. If you make changes in After Effects, they’ll automatically update in the Adobe Premiere Pro sequence.

You can work with Adobe Premiere Pro material in After Effects in two ways.

New Premiere Pro Sequence. This creates an empty “clip” in After Effects. You can switch to Adobe Premiere Pro and add multiple files and even tracks into the sequence. When you switch back to Adobe Premiere Pro, you can treat the clip as a single video file. Any updates in Adobe Premiere Pro will appear in After Effects as well.
Import Premiere Pro Sequence. In After Effects, you can choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import Premiere Pro Sequence. This allows you to use a sequence as a single layer in your After Effects composition without having to render or export. If you make any changes in Adobe Premiere Pro, they will be automatically reflected in your After Effects comps.

Linking to and from Adobe Encore

As you finish your work, one common distribution format is disc, either DVD or Blu-ray Disc. You can take any sequence and send it to Adobe Encore. Simply choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Send to Encore. This method allows you to pass a sequence to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or Flash without having to render it first.

Encore will open and let you choose the kind of disc you’d like to make (Figure 4.24) as well as what sort of default transcoding you should do. Encore will also recognize chapter markers from the Adobe Premiere Pro sequence, which allows for more precise chapter markers. Similarly, you can dynamically link an After Effects composition to an Encore project.

Figure 4.24. In the Encore New Project window you can choose the type of disc you’d like to build as well as the basics for transcoding.

Linking to and from Adobe Audition

Starting with Adobe Production CS5.5, Adobe Audition is included in the suite. Check out Chapter 10, “Audio Mixing and Repair.” Adobe Audition permits adjustment fixes of single audio clips to Adobe Audition for multitrack mixing and audio restoration.

To send a single clip, select a clip either in the browser or in a sequence. Choose Edit > Edit in Adobe Audtion > Clip. The clip will be replaced by an extracted audio clip. There is also a method of sending a sequence (see Chapter 10) that isn’t a dynamic link.

Dynamic Link Doesn’t Mean Import

Adobe Dynamic Link exists only for specific workflows, but it’s important to remember that you can use it only for special purposes. The goal of Dynamic Link is to allow content to update easily (such as a video track in Encore after changes are made in Adobe Premiere Pro) or to make it easier to exchange files (such as between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects).

Besides Dynamic Link, you can almost always import files from one application to another and retain editability.

For example, Photoshop and Illustrator graphics can be easily modified by choosing Edit > Edit Original in After Effects.
Although Adobe Premiere Pro can’t access raw camera formats, After Effects can. If you open a raw file in After Effects and save the project, you can dynamically link to the project in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Be sure to fully explore the documentation with each application to learn even more ways to use Dynamic Link. Plus, in the world of Adobe, it never hurts to just try importing a project file and see what happens.

TABLE 4.1 contains the available relationships between applications in the Creative Suite.

Table 4.1. Relationships Between the Tools in the Creative Suite

	Pr	AE	Au	En	Ps	AI	FL	AME
From
Adobe Premiere Pro	▄	DL Export	DL Export	DL Export	Export	NA	NA Import	Export
After Effects	DL Export	▄	Import	DL Export	Export	NA	ExportXFL	Import
Audtion	DL Export	Export	▄	Import	NA	NA	NA	NA
Encore	NA	NA	NA	▄	NA	NA	Export	NA
Photoshop	Export/Import	Export/Import	NA	Export/Import	▄	Export/Import	Export/Import	NA
Flash	Export	DL	DL	Export	Export	Export/Import	▄	Export
Adobe Media Encoder	Export	Export	Export	NA	NA	NA	NA	▄
DL = Dynamic Link Export = Export or Save Compatible files		Import = Import Project file XFL = XML-based Flash Exchange format				NA = Not Applicable

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