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Video and animation formats
• Animated GIF (GIF)
• DV (in MOV or AVI container, or as containerless DV stream)
• ElectricImage (IMG, EI)
• Filmstrip (FLM)
• Flash (SWF; continuously rasterized)
Note: SWF files are imported with an alpha channel. Interactive content is not retained.
• MPEG formats (MPEG, MPE, MPG, M2V, MPA, MP2, M2A, MPV, M2P, M2T, VOB, MOD, AC3, MP4, M4V, M4A)
• Open Media Framework (OMF; raw media [or essence] only; Windows only)
• QuickTime (MOV; 16 bpc, requires QuickTime)
• Adobe Photoshop with video layer (PSD; requires QuickTime)
• Video for Windows (AVI, WAV; requires QuickTime on Mac OS)
You can import 10-bpc uncompressed YUV AVI files created in Adobe Premiere Pro into 16-bpc RGB After Effects
projects. You can also render with 10-bpc YUV compression. (See "Specify Video for Windows compression options"
on page 614.)
• Windows Media File (WMV, WMA, ASF; Windows only)
Project formats
• Advanced Authoring Format (AAF; Windows only)
• Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 (PPJ)
• Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, CS3 (PRPROJ; 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 Windows only)
• Adobe After Effects 4.0 and later (AEP, AET)
• XML Forms Data Format (XFDF; for importing of Clip Notes comments)
See also
"Supported output formats" on page 583
Import footage items
You can import media files into your project either by using the Import dialog box or by dragging. If the Interpret
Footage dialog box appears after you import a footage item, it contains an unlabeled alpha channel, and you must
select an alpha channel interpretation method or click Guess to let After Effects determine how to interpret the alpha
channel.
Imported footage items appear in the Project panel.
See also
"Specify alpha channel interpretation" on page 62
"Import a single still image or a still-image sequence" on page 87
"Shortcuts for working with footage" on page 637
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