Another workaround:

Make the transition leading into your AE comp "start at cut",
and the transition exiting your AE comp "end at cut".

Obviously access to clip handles would be ideal.

Since your clip you want to replace with AE composition may be quite complex piece of several nested sequences, and you are not prohibited from having some extra video and audio tracks in the timeline, it's a easier to do some preparatory work right in PrPro:

1. Select you clip you want to replace with AE composition and paste it e.g. into the tracks above and below

2. Expand it according to your transitions borders and then replace with AE comp

3. When you finish your magic in AE, select that very clip in the PrPro timeline you originally wanted to replace with AE comp (if you want to keep your original audio untouched, unlink audio from video first).

4. Select your Dynamically Linked comp in your Project panel or Source monitor, keep Alt/Opt pressing and drag it over selected clip in the timeline - it preserves your transitions from disappearing (if you want to perlace just video, drag only video from Source monitor accordingly)

Try Alt/Opt+Shift when dragging.

EDIT:  I think Colin meant to reply to uwxplorer.

Message was edited by: Jeff Bellune

I've got a follow-up question regarding this technique. I am still a bit confused about what is "linked" or not.

Namely, what I usually do is transcode my footage to a codec and bitrate that is manageable for my system and edit that transcoded footage.

Then, after I am satisfied with the sequence (having color corrected, titled, etc), I use "replace footage..." to replace all the transcoded clips by their originals and export the sequence to its final destination, hopefully recovering the original footage quality.

My question is whether this will also work for linked compositions. That is, supposed that I stabilized a (transcoded) clip and reinsert it in the timeline as discussed in this thread. If I replace that clip in the Project Explorer by the original (using "replace footage..."), will the dynamic link work with the new (original) clip? I guess I could experiment and delete the transcoded footage after I have done the replacement to see whether that breaks the sequence...

I hope my question makes sense to someone.

I see. Would it not make sense though? At least to offer to replace the footage in the AE compositions that use the footage which will be replaced in Premiere?

The technique works in preserving the transitions but doesn’t let ALL the effects in AE come through.

For example if you color correct in Ae that works fine with this technique, but if you use warp stabilizer the stabilization is not carried through to premier and the linked comp is left unstabilized... very strange ??   any ideas why or how to get warp stabilizer to work and preserve the transitions ?

thanks for the reply, it seems to work fine today ? maybe a restart was all it needed ? thanks anyway fuzzy

Yes, the issue remains on exporting.

What the second issue actually means is PrPro interprets where a clip replaced with dynamically linked AE comp actually starts incorrectly, i.e. somehow physically shifts the beginning of the clip in the timeline

No way! Just apply Slip Tool to shift the beginning of the clip back.

dynamic reality

I couldn't get it to work. I could slip one way but not the other and after slipping in one direction, there was a gap at the end (during the transition), so a black flash occured. I resorted to recreating the comp...but even then, after reprocessing the clip, I got the same bug. :-(

Gotcha! It works but that's odd. PP basically did not  handle the handle properly and "filled" in the first transition's last half with the first frame of the clip/comp intended for the handle (static display) and  then resumed playing the clip. I suppose it therefore had extra footage at the end of the clip for the end transition?

Thanks a bunch for guiding me through it.

You said it's a reported bug? It is not systematic for all linked comps in which the warp stabilizer is used, as I have many others in my sequence, and they seem to play fine.

Wow! I took a closer look at my sequence and it turns out that ALL transitions involving linked comps (mine are mostly used to apply the warp stabilizer) are messed up... I should have reacted earlier, as the transitions looked half hatched on the sequence. But I am new to PP, so I didn't quite know what to do of this info.

Definitely worth a bug report now that the reproducibility is guaranteed! I'll do that once I have fixed my sequence...

EDIT: bug reported, linked to this thread.