Importing into A.E.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

After Effects doesn’t work the same way as premiere. AE is more like an animated version of photshop where layers are infront or behind eachother, but also laid out in time. However, even though you are working on different layers, you are still in the same timeline, so you can line them up in time, just on differernt levels in a stack. so if you have footage A, B, and C, and you wanted them to play in that order you’d set it up like this:

AAAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBBB
CCCCCCCCC

Since stack order doesn;t matter that much for simple cuts between footage, and time is really of essence here, You could even set them up like this:

CCCCCCCCC
AAAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBBBB

Or, if you wanted there to be a crossfade, (which you’d have to animate) and you want overlap, you can do that too:

AAAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBBBB
CCCCCCCCC

After Effects is a compositor, so if you had a guy on a Greenscreen (A), some text that flies behind him (B) and a background image or video (C) you;d just set it up like this:

AAAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBBB
CCCCCCCCC

Make sense?

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Aharon Rabinowitz
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[Visionary Films]

so what your telling me is that the layers are suppose to line up like that 0:00:00:0 and all that i have to do is pull them to correct position for the music video?? if that be the case seems like a lot of work, i thought it was suppose to synch exactly in premiere to AE in that exact order, hmmmmm well… lol i’ll give it a try, thought for sure its exactly the same but i guess not.

Rick
visionary films

Richard Carr
Founder & Director
Enchanted Storms Production
Louisville, KY 40218
502-671-1274
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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Whoops. Sorry I missed that you were actually bringin in stuff from premiere – I thought you were trying to just set it up the same way in premiere. Whoops.

Can you descripbe the exact steps your taking to bring thing sin from premiere. Import can mean a lot of things…

Also, it’s possible that AE 6.5 can;t read PPro files properly, since PPro 2 came out along with AE7. Not sure. Don’t use PPro except for capture.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Visionary Films]

i’m trying to pick up the pace on editing a music video and i was attempt to import the PPro project as its layed out in Premiere into A.E 6.5 try-out. i did go to the help section of AE and all that it told me was to import>file> and i did that, AE lined everything up from top to bottom 0:00:00:0 there was synching from PPro when i imported the project into A.E.

should i just continue on cutting the film then take those clips that i want into AE, then export that off back into PPro? that’s the way i used to do it but I like to learn faster and quicker instead of doing the same thing over and over, even though it works, i’m just seeing what the program can and can’t do. i like new challenges as an editor pushing myself from my last music videos, now i’m learning how the programs work together, well somewhat work together,lol.

you understand what i’m doing?

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Whoops. Sorry I missed that you were actually bringin in stuff from premiere – I thought you were trying to just set it up the same way in premiere. Whoops.

Can you descripbe the exact steps your taking to bring thing sin from premiere. Import can mean a lot of things…

Also, it’s possible that AE 6.5 can;t read PPro files properly, since PPro 2 came out along with AE7. Not sure. Don’t use PPro except for capture.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I just ran a test where i linesd up 2 files in PPro, saved it, and then imported the PPro project into AE 7 (File > Import >File > Premiere Project)

Then i double clicked on the composition it had created in the project window (in mine it was called Sequence 1, because that’s the default name PPro gave it, and I never changed it), and it opened up with the files lined up.

So that worked fine.

As another test, I also selected both pieces of footage and chose Edit > Copy, and then in AE, I created a new comp and hit Edit > Paste and it pasted them in properly as well, all lined up.

Now on my computer, I can’t even import a PPro 2,0 project into AE 6.5 – I get a message that it’s the wrong format (newer, I guess, so it can’t read it), so I’m not sure how you’re getting AE 6.5 to read it properly.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Visionary Films]

okay i read and did what you stated, all of my layers are right on top of each other, AE did not put them in the order as they appear in Ppro 1.5 not 2.0 my bad on that tip, anywayz, i thought AE will put them exactly where they appear in PPro. i have 10 tracks of video footage to cut inbetween each other AE did evern timecode the layers at all, yes i can drag them where they need to go however i’m pushing for time here, sigh i’ll figure it out, i have another week on this video so its all good, thanks for all your help aharon.

Rick

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I have no idea what to tell you, did you try the cut and paste?

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com