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  • Copying and pasting from Premiere to After Effects WITHOUT making precomps

    Posted by Pawl Fisher on November 22, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Hey guys,

    So on my other workstation I had a good system going where I would copy and paste my edits from Premiere into AE and do all my final compositing.

    When I would paste into AE, it would just paste the video files and I would Video Copilot’s Trim Compose to make them precomps.

    I am on a new workstation on a Mac using cineform MOV and now when I paste from Premiere into AE (on multiple versions) it automatically makes the clips precomps.

    This is a problem because I have to go into each precomp to make modifications. Example, in my composition if I want to make a precomp 3d, I have to double click and go inside the precomp and switch it on there! very annoying please please help!!

    Grant Van zutphen replied 8 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Pawl Fisher

    November 26, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    Uhm so I just tried using Dynamic Link and it did the exact same thing.
    It loads the clips as precomps and when I check the 3d box and try to rotate the clip it rotates a frame but the image stays the same.

    Import Premiere sequence does the same.
    How do I turn off “auto precomping”

  • Dogus Aslan

    February 9, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    i would very much like to know the answer to this also.

  • Dogus Aslan

    February 9, 2013 at 1:36 pm

    surprised to find the answer, heres the link:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/645770

    just turn off “default scale to framesize” in premiere preferences.this way video will be sent to after effects without pre-composing.

  • Grant Van zutphen

    December 1, 2017 at 4:47 am

    Yeah, scale to frame size is the issue. I always use ‘set to frame size’ in premiere rather than ‘scale’ for this reason.

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