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From Premiere to AE
Hi,
This is my first time working in After Effects and I’m having some trouble. I’m trying to take clips I have in my Premiere timeline, do a little editing on them in After Effects, then take them back to Premiere. The problem is, when I copy/paste a clip from Premiere to After Effects, After Effects does not recognize the trimming I’ve done to it so what I get is the source clip. For example, if I make a 5 second subclip from a 15 minute source clip and place it in my Premiere timeline then copy/paste it into After Effects, I get the original 15 minute clip. But that’s obviously not what I want! Is there something I’m doing wrong for this to happen?
Also, when I made some changes to a clip in After Effects and pasted it back into Premiere, the changes did not show up. The clip appeared as if it had not been edited at all. Am I doing something wrong here too?
Thanks in advance,
April -
2 Replies
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Not sure why you aren’t getting the trimmed clip(s) when you paste into AE. The only thing I can think of suggesting is to make sure that you actually have the trimmed clip(s) in the timeline highlighted/selected when you copy. In other words, don’t have the untrimmed clip(s) in the project panel selected when you copy.
As far as the other issue, I can probably offer more help: The thing is that just because you apply changes in AE, doesn’t mean you can just copy those layers and paste them into Premiere with the changes showing up. Here’s 2 different workflows that will work:
1. (Must be CS3 or later) Save your AE project after you do the changes. In PP, import the AE composition by importing AE project and selecting composition. The AE composition will show up as a layer in the PP timeline. It will most likely not play in realtime; you’ll have to render it. But it makes it easy to go back and forth between AE and PP and make adjustments
2. Render a movie/clip from AE with the changes, and import it into Premiere.Hope this helps,
Eric -
Hi Eric,
Thank you for the quick reply.
Although I still cannot seem to figure out the copy/paste “bug,” I think I can get around this by trimming clips in AE, applying effects, then importing to Premiere, correct?
And while I have you, I have another quick question: I’m trying to replicate the Sin City effect in AE (I’m following the CreativeCow tutorial), but when I mask it seems to be leaving everything in color that I “lasso” and everything around it in black. This isn’t what I want though. Instead, I want to maintain all parts of the clips, and just apply certain effects to the area I mask. Again, am I doing something wrong? Because when I first started practicing the effect it would work, but I must have selected something to where it now blackens out everything around my selection.
All the help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again in advance,
April
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