Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 94)

88 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Importing and managing footage items
Last updated 12/21/2009
• From either After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro, you can copy and paste footage items to the other’s Project panel.
Note: You can’t, however, paste footage items from the After Effects Project panel into the Adobe Premiere Pro
Timeline panel.
If you want to work with all clips or a single sequence from an Adobe Premiere Pro project, use the Import command
instead to import the project into After Effects.
Use Adobe Dynamic Link to create dynamic links, without rendering, between new or existing compositions in After
Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.
For a video demonstrating some ways to exchange items between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, see
www.adobe.com/go/vid0256 .
Copy from After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro
You can copy a layer based on a footage item from an After Effects composition and paste it into an Adobe Premiere
Pro sequence. Adobe Premiere Pro converts these layers to clips in the sequence and copies the source footage item to
its Project panel. If the layer contains an effect that is also used by Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro converts
the effect and all of its settings and keyframes.
You can also copy nested compositions, Photoshop layers, solid-color layers, and audio layers. Adobe Premiere Pro
converts nested compositions to nested sequences, and solid-color layers to color mattes. You cannot copy shape, text,
camera, light, or adjustment layers to Adobe Premiere Pro.
1 Start Adobe Premiere Pro (you must start Adobe Premiere Pro before you copy the layer in After Effects).
2 Select a layer (or layers) from the After Effects Timeline panel.
Note: If you select multiple layers and the layers don’t overlap in After Effects, they’re placed on the same track in Adobe
Premiere Pro. On the other hand, if the layers overlap in After Effects, the order in which you select them determines the
order of their track placement in Adobe Premiere Pro. Each layer is placed on a separate track, and the last selected layer
appears on Track 1. For example, if you select layers from top to bottom, the layers appear in the reverse order in Adobe
Premiere Pro, with the bottom-most layer on Track 1.
3 Choose Edit > Copy.
4 In Adobe Premiere Pro, open a sequence in the Timeline panel.
5 Move the current-time indicator to the desired location, and choose either Edit > Paste or Edit > Paste Insert.
Results of pasting into Adobe Premiere Pro
When you paste a layer into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence, keyframes, effects, and other properties in the copied
layer are converted as follows:
After Effects item Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro Notes
Audio volume property Channel Volume filter
Blending modes Blending modes supported by
Adobe
Premiere Pro are converted
Effect properties and
keyframes Effect properties and keyframes, if the
effect also exists in Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro lists unsupported
effects as offline in the Effect Controls panel.
Some After Effects effects have the same
names as those in Adobe Premiere Pro, but
since they’re actually different effects, they
aren’t converted.
Expressions Not converted