Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Workflows and system setup
Last updated 11/6/2011
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.
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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:
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
Frame Hold
Time Remap property
After Effects item
Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro
Notes