Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
You can copy and paste layers and assets between Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. For a video on the workflow between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0256.
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From the After Effects Timeline panel, you can copy footage layers or solid layers and paste them into the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
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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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From either After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro, you can copy and paste footage to the other’s Project panel.
Note: You can’t, however, paste footage from the After Effects Project panel into the Adobe Premiere Timeline panel.
Use Adobe Dynamic Link to create dynamic links,
without rendering, between new or existing compositions in After Effects
and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Copy from After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro
You can copy a footage layer from an After Effects composition and paste it into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence. Adobe Premiere Pro converts footage layers to clips in the sequence and copies the source footage to its Project panel. If the layer contains an effect that is also used by Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro converts the effect and all of its settings and keyframes.
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.
Results of pasting into 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:
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After Effects item |
Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro |
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Transform property values and keyframes |
Motion or Opacity values and keyframes |
The keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier, Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained. |
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Effect properties and keyframes |
Effect properties and keyframes, if the effect also exists in Adobe Premiere Pro |
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. |
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Audio volume property |
Channel Volume filter |
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Stereo Mixer effect |
Channel Volume filter |
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Masks and mattes |
Not converted |
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Time Stretch property |
Speed property |
Speed and time stretch have an inverse relationship. For example, 200% stretch in After Effects converts to 50% speed in Adobe Premiere Pro. |
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Layer-time markers |
Clip markers |
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Time Remapping properties |
Not converted |
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Blending modes |
Not converted |
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Expressions |
Not converted |
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 composition. 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.
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.
Results of pasting into 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:
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Adobe Premiere Pro asset |
Converted to in After Effects |
Notes |
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Motion or Opacity values and keyframes |
Transform property values and keyframes |
Keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier, Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained. |
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Video effect properties and keyframes |
Effect properties and keyframes, as long as the effect also exists in After Effects |
After Effects doesn’t display unsupported effects in the Effect Controls panel. |
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Crop filter |
Mask layer |
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Video and audio transitions |
Opacity keyframes (Cross dissolve only) or solids |
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Volume and Channel Volume audio filters |
Stereo mixer effect |
Other audio filters are not converted. |
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Speed property |
Time Stretch property |
Speed and time stretch have an inverse relationship. For example, 50% speed in Adobe Premiere Pro is converted to 200% stretch in After Effects. |
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Frame Hold |
Time Remap |
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Clip marker |
Layer-time marker |
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Sequence marker |
Markers on a new solid layer |
To copy sequence markers, you must either copy the sequence itself or import the entire Adobe Premiere Pro project as a composition. |
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Audio track |
Audio layers |
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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Color mattes |
Solids |
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Time Remapping effect |
Not converted |
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Titles |
Not converted |
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Bars and tone |
Not converted |
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Universal counting leaders |
Not converted |
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