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You can copy color mattes, stills, nested sequences, and offline files as well. After Effects converts color mattes into
solid 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 or
effects into After Effects.
Select an asset from the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
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Choose Edit > Copy.
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3 In After Effects, open a composition in the Timeline panel.
With the Timeline panel active, choose Edit > Paste. The asset appears as the topmost layer in the Timeline panel.
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Note: To paste the asset at the current-time indicator, position the current-time indicator and press Ctrl+Alt+V
(Windows) or Command+Option+V (Mac OS).
Results of pasting in 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:
Adobe Premiere Pro asset
Motion or Opacity values and keyframes
Video effect properties and keyframes
Crop filter
Video and audio transitions
Volume and Channel Volume audio filters
Speed property
Frame Hold
Clip marker
Sequence marker
Audio track
Color mattes
Titles
Bars and tone
Universal counting leaders
Converted to in After Effects
Transform property values and keyframes
Effect properties and keyframes, as long as
the effect also exists in After Effects
Mask layer
Opacity keyframes (Cross dissolve only) or
solids
Stereo mixer effect
Time Stretch property
Time Remap
Layer-time marker
Markers on a new solid layer
Audio layers
Solids
Not converted
Not converted
Not converted
Notes
Keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier, Contin-
uous Bezier, or Hold—is retained.
After Effects doesn't display unsupported
effects in the Effect Controls panel.
Other audio filters are not converted.
Speed and time stretch have an inverse rela-
tionship. For example, 50% speed in Adobe
Premiere Pro is converted to 200% stretch in
After Effects.
To copy sequence markers, you must either
copy the sequence itself or import the
entire Adobe Premiere Pro project as a
composition.
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.
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