I am working on premiere pro cs5.5 on a 2011 iMac i7 quad core 16gb RAM. Basically I worked on a project with another person who accidentally made a new after effects project and used dynamic link to link about 50% of the project to the wrong AE project. Since AE can only run 1 session at once I was constantly closing and opening sessions durring editing and now that I'm trying to export I'm getting slow export speeds and error messages as well as crashing. So my questions are:
1. Can I export my video from premiere without having both AE projects open?
2. If not, what is the best work around? I thought about exporting pieces but that won't work because in some instances the clips overlap.
Any help would be appreciated.