Import an adobe premiere pro project – Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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Import an Adobe Premiere Pro project

The ability to import Adobe Premiere Pro projects into After Effects eliminates the need to render the project in
Premiere Pro before applying visual effects and animations in 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. You can also import Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects
into After Effects.

Note: After Effects on Mac OS can’t import Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 projects. After Effects on Mac OS can
import Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects.

After Effects preserves the order of clips in the timeline, the footage duration (including all trimmed In and Out
points), and marker and transition locations. After Effects bases the arrangement of layers in the Timeline panel on
the arrangement of clips in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel. After Effects adds Adobe Premiere Pro clips to
the Timeline panel as layers in the order they appeared—from the bottom up and from left to right—in the Adobe
Premiere Pro Timeline panel. After Effects preserves changes made to the speed of a clip, for example, with the Clip >
Speed command, and these changes appear as a value in the Stretch column in the After Effects Timeline panel.

After Effects imports effects common to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, and preserves keyframes for these
effects. If you’re working in Adobe Premiere Pro, an After Effects icon in the Effects panel denotes common effects
used by both applications.

Transitions and titles (except for dissolves) included in your Adobe Premiere Pro project appear in the After Effects
composition as solid layers with their original location and duration.

Audio Level keyframes are preserved.

Choose File > Import > File.

Select an Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Premiere project, and click OK.

Do any of the following:

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To import only one sequence, choose a sequence from the menu.

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To import audio, select Import Audio.

To add a single item from a track in an Adobe Premiere Pro project, copy the item in Adobe Premiere Pro, and choose
Edit > Paste in After Effects.

“About nesting and precomposing” on page 113

Use Adobe Premiere Pro for capture (Production Premium only)

If you have Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, you can start Adobe Premiere Pro from inside After Effects
and use it to capture footage for use in your After Effects project.

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Choose File > Import > Capture In Adobe Premiere Pro.