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Importing into AE from Premiere
I’ve been working on a HDV project in Premiere CS3 and imported the project file into AE CS3 to do some additional work on it. Unfortunately, things like titles, green screen keying effects, horizontal flipping, and other motion effects that I applied in Premiere are lost when I view the project in AE. So how do I keep my project intact when bringing it into AE?
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Open the manuals. Roundtripping between the CS2 or CS3 apps is more complicated than the marketing people at Adobe would have you believe.
Some of the same filters and plugins are used in both applications but not many.
Most Premiere effects must be rendered first as they have no directly translatable plugins in AE.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Titles and transitions are not translated in their full glory when going from PPro to AE. I’m surprised that keying isn’t.
The thing to note about working between these two apps is to re-appreciate your workflow. use PPro as an editing tool. Use AE as a Titling and Compositing Tool. When intending to go from PPro to AE, it is best to observe old-school, off-line and on-line paradigms.
In other words, perform your edits in PPro and fine-tune your edit points there. Put any titles you want but only as placeholders. Once in AE either use AE’s Text Tool (strange that it’s not called the Title Tool) or disregard the placeholder until you get back into PPro.
When you’re done in AE, either render out your movie with only those layers that you need switched on. Or use CS3’s Dynamic Link import feature to import the AE composition.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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