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Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro

Import an After Effects project
You can import one After Effects project into another. Everything from the imported project, including footage
items, compositions, and folders, appears inside a new folder in the current Project panel.
You can import an After Effects project from a different operating system, as long as you maintain the file names,
folder names, and either full or relative paths (folder locations) for all files in the project. To maintain relative paths,
the source footage files must reside on the same volume as the project file. Use the File > Collect Files command to
gather copies of all files in a project or composition into a single location.
Choose File > Import > File.
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2 Select the After Effects project to import, and click Open.
If a file format is not supported by the operating system that you are using, if the file is missing, or if the reference
link is broken, After Effects substitutes a placeholder item containing color bars. You can reconnect the placeholder
to the appropriate file by double-clicking the entry in the Project panel and navigating to the source file. In most
cases, you need to relink only one footage file. After Effects locates other missing items if they're in the same location.
See also
"Collect files in one location" on page 589
"Work with placeholders and proxies" on page 70
Import an Adobe Premiere Pro project
The ability to import Adobe Premiere Pro projects into After Effects eliminates the need to render the project in
Premiere Pro before applying visual effects and animations in After Effects. When you import an Adobe Premiere
Pro project, After Effects imports it into the Project panel as both a new composition containing each Adobe
Premiere Pro clip as a layer, and as a folder containing each clip as an individual footage item. If your Adobe Premiere
Pro project contains bins, After Effects converts them to folders within the Adobe Premiere Pro project folder. After
Effects converts nested sequences to nested compositions. You can also import Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects
into After Effects.
Note: After Effects on Mac OS can't import Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 projects. After Effects on Mac OS can
import Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects.
After Effects preserves the order of clips in the timeline, the footage duration (including all trimmed In and Out
points), and marker and transition locations. After Effects bases the arrangement of layers in the Timeline panel on
the arrangement of clips in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel. After Effects adds Adobe Premiere Pro clips to
the Timeline panel as layers in the order they appeared—from the bottom up and from left to right—in the Adobe
Premiere Pro Timeline panel. After Effects preserves changes made to the speed of a clip, for example, with the Clip >
Speed command, and these changes appear as a value in the Stretch column in the After Effects Timeline panel.
After Effects imports effects common to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, and preserves keyframes for these
effects. If you're working in Adobe Premiere Pro, an After Effects icon in the Effects panel denotes common effects
used by both applications.
Transitions and titles (except for dissolves) included in your Adobe Premiere Pro project appear in the After Effects
composition as solid layers with their original location and duration.
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