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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.

  1. Start Adobe Premiere Pro (you must start Adobe Premiere Pro before you copy the layer in After Effects).
  2. 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.
  3. Choose Edit > Copy.
  4. In Adobe Premiere Pro, open a sequence in the Timeline panel.
  5. 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.

  1. Select an asset from the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
  2. Choose Edit > Copy.
  3. In After Effects, open a composition in the Timeline panel.
  4. 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

  



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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."

 

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