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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 text, shape,
camera, light, or adjustment layers to Adobe Premiere Pro.
Start Adobe Premiere Pro (you must start Adobe Premiere Pro before you copy the layer in After Effects).
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Select a layer (or layers) from the After Effects Timeline panel.
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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 determines 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.
Choose Edit > Copy.
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4 In Adobe Premiere Pro, open a sequence in the Timeline panel.
Move the current-time indicator to the desired location, and choose either Edit > Paste or Edit > Paste Insert.
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Results of pasting in 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:
After Effects item
Transform property values and keyframes
Effect properties and keyframes
Audio volume property
Stereo Mixer effect
Masks and mattes
Time Stretch property
Layer-time markers
Blending modes
Expressions
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.
Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro
Motion or Opacity values and keyframes
Effect properties and keyframes, if the effect
also exists in Adobe Premiere Pro
Channel Volume filter
Channel Volume filter
Not converted
Speed property
Clip markers
Not converted
Not converted
Notes
The keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier,
Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained.
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.
Speed and time stretch have an inverse rela-
tionship. For example, 200% stretch in
After Effects converts to 50% speed in
Adobe Premiere Pro.
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