Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 User Manual
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You can also copy nested compositions, Photoshop layers, solid layers, and audio layers. Adobe Premiere Pro
converts nested compositions to nested sequences, and solid layers to color mattes. You cannot copy shape, camera,
light, or adjustment layers to Adobe Premiere Pro.
1
Start Adobe Premiere Pro (you must start Adobe Premiere Pro before you copy the layer in After Effects).
2
Select a layer (or layers) from the After Effects Timeline panel.
Note: If you select multiple layers and the layers don’t overlap in After
Effects, they’re placed on the same track in
Adobe Premiere Pro. On the other hand, if the layers overlap in After Effects, the order in which you select them deter-
mines the order of their track placement in Adobe Premiere Pro. Each layer is placed on a separate track, and the last
selected layer appears on Track 1. For example, if you select layers from top to bottom, the layers appear in the reverse
order in Adobe Premiere Pro, with the bottommost layer on Track 1.
3
Choose Edit > Copy.
4
In Adobe Premiere Pro, open a sequence in the Timeline panel.
5
Move the current-time indicator to the desired location, and choose either Edit > Paste or Edit > Paste Insert.
Results of pasting into Adobe Premiere Pro
When you paste a layer into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence, keyframes, effects, and other properties in the copied
layer are converted as follows:
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.
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
April 1, 2008