Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 95)

89 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Importing and managing footage items
Last updated 12/21/2009
Copy from Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects
You can copy a video or audio asset from an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence and paste it into an After Effects
composition. After Effects converts assets to layers and copies the source footage items into its Project panel. If the
asset contains an effect that is also used by After Effects, After Effects converts the effect and all of its settings and
keyframes.
You can copy color mattes, stills, nested sequences, and offline files, too. After Effects converts color mattes into solid-
color layers and converts nested sequences into nested compositions. When you copy a Photoshop still image into
After Effects, After Effects retains the Photoshop layer information. You cannot paste Adobe Premiere Pro titles into
After Effects, but you can paste text with attributes from the Adobe Premiere Titler into After Effects.
1 Select an asset from the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
2 Choose Edit > Copy.
3 In After Effects, open a composition in the Timeline panel.
4 With the Timeline panel active, choose Edit > Paste. The asset appears as the topmost layer in the Timeline panel.
Note: To paste the asset at the current-time indicator, place the current-time indicator and press Ctrl+Alt+V (Windows)
or Command+Option+V (Mac OS).
Results of pasting into After Effects
When you paste an asset into an After Effects composition, keyframes, effects, and other properties in a copied asset
are converted as follows:
Layer markers Clip markers
Masks and mattes Not converted
Stereo Mixer effect Channel Volume filter
Time Remap property Time Remapping effect
Time Stretch property Speed property Speed and time stretch have an inverse
relationship. For example, 200% stretch in
After Effects converts to 50% speed in
Adobe Premiere Pro.
Transform property values
and keyframes Motion or Opacity values and
keyframes The keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier,
Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained.
Adobe Premiere Pro asset Converted to in After Effects Notes
Audio track Audio layers Audio tracks that are either 5.1 surround
or greater than 16-bit aren’t supported.
Mono and stereo audio tracks are
imported as one or two layers.
Bars and tone Not converted
Blending modes Converted
Clip marker Layer marker
Color mattes Solid-color layers
Crop filter Mask layer
After Effects item Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro Notes