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.

From the After Effects Timeline panel, you can copy footage layers or solid layers 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.
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.

If you want to work with all clips or a single sequence from an Adobe Premiere Pro project, use the Import command instead to import the project into After Effects.

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 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).
Select a layer (or layers) from the After Effects Timeline panel.
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.
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.

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:

After Effects item	Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro	Notes
Transform property values and keyframes	Motion or Opacity values and keyframes	The keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier, Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained.
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.
Audio volume property	Channel Volume filter
Stereo Mixer effect	Channel Volume filter
Masks and mattes	Not converted
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.
Layer-time markers	Clip markers
Time Remapping properties	Not converted
Blending modes	Not converted
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, but you can paste text with attributes from the Adobe Premiere Titer into After Effects.

Select an asset from the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
Choose Edit > Copy.
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.
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 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:

Adobe Premiere Pro asset	Converted to in After Effects	Notes
Motion or Opacity values and keyframes	Transform property values and keyframes	Keyframe type—Bezier, Auto Bezier, Continuous Bezier, or Hold—is retained.
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.
Crop filter	Mask layer
Video and audio transitions	Opacity keyframes (Cross dissolve only) or solids
Volume and Channel Volume audio filters	Stereo mixer effect	Other audio filters are not converted.
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.
Frame Hold	Time Remap
Clip marker	Layer-time marker
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.
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.
Color mattes	Solids
Time Remapping effect	Not converted
Titles	Not converted
Bars and tone	Not converted
Universal counting leaders	Not converted

Comments

No screen name said on Sep 4, 2007 at 7:35 PM :

When I copy the clip from the timeline in Premier into After effects it brings in a different section of the master clip, I can try and scroll to the right spot but it usually crashes... why, spongbob, why?

smuratore said on Sep 5, 2007 at 11:49 AM :

It's possible your clip is carrying a Premiere effect not supported by After Effects. See the table "Results of pasting in After Effects."

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro

Copy from After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro

Results of pasting into Adobe Premiere Pro

Copy from Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects

Results of pasting into After Effects

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