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AFTER EFFECTS CS3
User Guide
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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 compo-
sition. After Effects converts assets to footage layers and copies the source footage 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 as well. After Effects converts color mattes into
solid 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 or
effects 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, position 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:
After Effects item Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro Notes
Transform property values and keyframes Motion or Opacity values and keyframes The keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier,
Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained.
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.
Audio volume property Channel Volume filter
Stereo Mixer effect Channel Volume filter
Masks and mattes Not converted
Time Stretch property Speed property Speed and time stretch have an inverse rela-
tionship. For example, 200% stretch in
After Effects converts to 50% speed in
Adobe Premiere Pro.
Layer-time markers Clip markers
Time Remapping properties Not converted
Blending modes Not converted
Expressions Not converted