importing several EX3-Clips into After Effects CS4 at once

[Ryan Johnson]

I find my EX3 .mp4 file work just fine in AE CS4. Importing is a pain
as I import the all the folder’s then pic out the files from the folders. Then I delete all the folder that don’t have anything in them.
Hope there will be a beter way next upgrade.

EX3 file have worked great for me. I’ve done alot of Spots this
way.

[Andi Wand]

Hi Dave and Ryan,

thanks for your reply. I don’t edit in After Effects, I need the clips for some effect stuff, they are small but many.
It seems as there is no real comfortable way to import many EX-Clips at once into After Effects. I personally prefer may way, picking out the MP4-files as you do it, Ryan, sounds really like a pain in the xx.
I do it this way: I import all the footage to Premiere Pro (the sequenz can stay empty), save the project and import it into After Effects (File -> Import -> import Premiere Pro Project). I get all the MP4 imported plus the empty sequenz which I delete. This way wouldn’t be that bad, but the pain is, that Premiere has to adjust (whatever it actually does) all the files after importing them – means you have to wait some while.
Well, that’s definatly no comfortable way but still better than picking files out of folders by hand.

Thanks for your answer, at least I now know that there is no really good way for that import issue.

Regards, Andi

[Austin Hill]

Try This:

This would work if you were importing directly into AE without having trimmed in Premiere first. I’ll cover that in 2

1) from Windows go to the root folder of where all the EX3 files are. control-F to do a search and type in *.mp4

That will then ONLY show the mp4 files. Drag and drop.

2) if you need to trim in Premiere first then setup a sequence in premiere with all your clips, trim them, select them all from the sequence (audio too, if you want) right click, select ‘replace with After Effects composition’. Now all the clips will be in AE, each as their own layer.