Import after effects compositions, Import cmx3600 edl projects, Importing xml project files from final cut pro – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Last updated 11/6/2011
About Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
Import After Effects compositions
1
Do one of the following:
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Select File > Import, and browse to the desired AEP file.
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(Production Premium only) Select File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition.
2
Select the AEP file and click Open.
If the After Effects project contains more than one composition, the Import After Effects Composition dialog opens.
3
Select one or more compositions. Shift-click to select contiguous compositions. Ctrl-click (Windows), or
Command-click (Mac OS) to select non-contiguous clips.
Premiere Pro imports the selected After Effects compositions and places them into the Project panel. If you selected
more than one composition. Premiere Pro creates a bin with the name of the AEP file, and places the compositions
within that bin.
Import CMX3600 EDL projects
You can import project files in the EDL file format.
1
Select File > Import, and browse to the project file containing the desired EDL file, and select it.
2
Click Open.
Importing XML project files from Final
Cut
Pro
You can import entire projects, selected clips, or selected sequences that you export from Final Cut Pro as XML files.
In Premiere Pro, bins and clips have the same hierarchies and names that they have in the Final Cut Pro source
projects. Also, Premiere Pro retains the sequence markers, sequence settings, track layout, locked tracks, and sequence
timecode start points of Final Cut Pro source projects. Premiere Pro imports text from the Final Cut Pro Text
generators into Premiere Pro titles.
Note: You can not import native Final Cut Pro project files, only XML files exported from Final Cut Pro. Also, you can
not export Final Cut Pro XML files from Premiere Pro.
Import an XML file from Final Cut Pro
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Export an XML file from Final Cut Pro. For more information, see Final Cut Pro Help.
2
In Final Cut Pro, close the source project.
3
In Premiere Pro, select File >Import.
4
Browse to the XML file, and click Open.