Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Using Manual page 93

Last updated 12/21/2009
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 CS4 projects and Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects.
Not all features of an Adobe Premiere Pro project are preserved when the project is imported into After Effects. The
same features are preserved when you import a Premiere Pro project into After Effects as when you copy and paste
between Premiere Pro and After Effects.
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 in which 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. 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.
Audio Level keyframes are preserved.
1 Choose File > Import > File or File > Import > Adobe Premiere Pro Project.
If you choose Import > Adobe Premiere Pro Project, then only Adobe Premiere Pro projects are shown.
Select a project, and click OK.
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3 Do any of the following:
• To import only one sequence, choose a sequence from the menu.
• To import audio, select Import Audio.
To add a single item from a track in an Adobe Premiere Pro project, copy the item in Adobe Premiere Pro, and choose
Edit > Paste in After Effects.
More Help topics
"Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere
"About precomposing and
Use Adobe Premiere Pro for capture (Production Premium and Master
Collection only)
If you have Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium or Master Collection, you can start Adobe Premiere Pro from
inside After Effects and use it to capture footage for use in your After Effects project.
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Choose File > Import > Capture In Adobe Premiere Pro.
Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
• From the After Effects Timeline panel, you can copy layers based on audio or video footage items (including solids)
and paste them into the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
• From the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel, you can copy assets (any items in a track) and paste them into the
After Effects Timeline panel.
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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Importing and managing footage items
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