Embedding a project link in After Effects

- While I'm a big fan of Dynamic Link,…sometimes you need to render,…particularly when projects get really complex.…But, just because you're outputting a movie,…doesn't mean that you have to lose the connection…to the project.…After Effects offers a great option…to embed a project link.…This makes it easy to create a dependency…between the movie in your editing timeline…all the way back to After Effects,…and this works with all NLEs, not just Adobe Premiere Pro.…Let's take a look at a workflow…for creating a link from a rendered After Effects project…back to the project.…

So, for example, if we decide to take something…that's in After Effects and render it:…Composition, Add to Render Queue,…there's a great option buried in here.…Now let's bring up the Render Queue full-screen.…I just pressed the tilde or accent grave key.…That's the one next to the number one.…You can choose an output module that matches your needs,…such as Lossless with Alpha,…or I have a preset here that I've made…based upon the RGB plus Alpha settings…