Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
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Import an After Effects project
Import an Adobe Premiere Pro project
Use Adobe Premiere Pro for capture (Production Premium and Master Collection only)
Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
Import an After Effects project
You can import one After Effects project into another. Everything from the imported project—including footage items, compositions, and folders—
appears inside a new folder in the current Project panel.
After Effects CS5 can open and import After Effects projects created by After Effects 6.0 and later. After Effects CS5.5 and later can open
and import an After Effects 6.5 project and later.
You can import an After Effects project from a different operating system, as long as you maintain the filenames, folder names, and either full or
relative paths (folder locations) for all files in the project. To maintain relative paths, the source footage files must reside on the same volume as
the project file. Use the File > Collect Files command to gather copies of all files in a project or composition into a single location. (See Cross-
platform project considerations.)
1. Choose File > Import > File.
2. Select the After Effects project to import, and click Open.
If the operating system that you are using does not support a file format, if the file is missing, or if the reference link is broken, After Effects
substitutes a placeholder item containing color bars. You can reconnect the placeholder to the appropriate file by double-clicking the entry in the
Project panel and navigating to the source file. In most cases, you need to relink only one footage file. After Effects locates other missing items if
they’re in the same location.
When you render a movie and export it to the QuickTime (MOV), Video for Windows (AVI), FLV, or F4V container format, you can embed a
link to the project in the container file. To import the project, import the MOV, AVI, FLV, or F4V file, and choose Project from the Import As menu in
the Import File dialog box. If the file contains a link to a project that has been moved, you can browse to locate the project. After Effects CS5 can
import projects using such links from movies created in After Effects CS4 and later.
Import an Adobe Premiere Pro project
Importing an Adobe Premiere Pro project into After Effects does not use Dynamic Link. After Effects can’t import a Premiere Pro project if
one or more sequences in it are already dynamically linked to After Effects. (See Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.)
When you import an Adobe Premiere Pro project, After Effects imports it into the Project panel as both a new composition containing each Adobe
Premiere Pro clip as a layer, and as a folder containing each clip as an individual footage item. If your Adobe Premiere Pro project contains bins,
After Effects converts them to folders within the Adobe Premiere Pro project folder. After Effects converts nested sequences to nested
compositions.
After Effects CS5 on Mac OS can import Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, CS4, and CS5 projects. After Effects CS5 on Mac OS can’t import
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 projects. After Effects CS5 on Windows can import projects from all Premiere Pro versions. After Effects CS5
can’t directly import Premiere 6.5 projects. If you need to import a Premiere 6.5 project, first convert it to a Premiere Pro project using a version of
Premiere Pro that can import Premiere 6.5 projects. After Effects CS5.5 and later can import Premiere 6.5 projects and later.
Not all features of an Adobe Premiere Pro project are preserved when the project is imported into After Effects. The same features are preserved
when you import a Premiere Pro project into After Effects as when you copy and paste between Premiere Pro and After Effects. (See
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