• Adobe After Effects

  Importing Compositions

  Posted by Jeff Watkins on October 25, 2015 at 12:12 am

  Is there a way to import a fully completed composition from one AE project into another? I somehow remember having done it once, but now have the sinking feeling that I created my new composition by starting it in the older project then saved it under a new name. In the present case, this won’t work. I’ve already completed the new composition and need to import the old composition as a part of it.

  Importing the old project doesn’t work, since it merely brings in the footage from that project as a composition without importing the other compositions in that old project as well, which is what I need.

  Thanks in advance to all you brilliant and talented minds!

  Jeff Watkins replied 10 years, 10 months ago 54,098 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Watkins

  October 25, 2015 at 3:35 pm

  Thanks for the reply! When I use Import, the only choices it provides are “as footage” or “as composition.” When I do the latter, it imports only the project’s footage as a composition while placing that footage in its own folder. The other compositions within that project are not imported, and it’s those I need. Do I have a preference set wrong? I’ve looked through them, but can’t seem to find one that applies.
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  Jeff Watkins

  October 25, 2015 at 5:14 pm

  Well, I do feel a fool. That, or my AE was just “tired” last night. This morning Import gave me the option to import a project, where last night it didn’t. So it’s all good now. The take-away is perseverance and trust in your betters. Thanks so much for sticking with me on what now seems like a most dunderheaded question.

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