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Premier Vs After Effects
Ok here goes. I create music videos and obviously capture everything in premier. I even line the shots up and create the transitions in premier. But want to run the whole project through After Effects for that quality touch…
Is it possible to import the entire premier project into After Effects with its individual shots and transitions? Or is there a better way to work with the two software together?
Appreciate any help.
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7 Replies
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Look Up Dynamic Link
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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I sometimes just save my prem project then import it into AE as though it were normal footage. The prem timeline becomes an AE comp. I use AE7 and Prem2 and sometimes have problems though. For example, audio transitions don’t seem to work (not a biggie, audio from AE isn’t the best way to go anyway) and I have also noticed that if you mirror flip footage in Prem, it isn’t carried over into AE.
The safest way I’ve found to do it is to edit in prem and then to add all transitions plus any image manipulation (scale and position etc) in AE.
Simon Bonner
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Thanks for the advice Simon.
It definitely makes sense to do all the effects and transitions in after effects. Have you noticed when you import a whole premier project into after effects every single clip comes up as a new layer? Making the timeline stupidly large. Where in premier you’ll only have a few video layers with all the shots cut up and arranged accordingly…
Dont suppose you know of anyway to tidy this up in after effects do you? I haven’t figured out this dynamic link yet either.
Francis D Williams
http://www.youtube.com/user/MCCatharsis
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Yeah, it can be a pain all those layers. You can tidy it up a bit by checking the ‘shy’ switch for the layers you don’t need to see (for the time being) and then hitting the shy button for the comp. Or you could precompose a number of related layers in AE (opening titles precomp, first part of show precomp, etc). You could also set this up in premiere by copying and pasting the various sections into their own sequences, then making a master sequence with all the “lower-order” sequences in it. Then just import all sequences into AE. Not importing audio will also help matters, as each audio clip will get its own layer – that’s just overkill!
Simon Bonner
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AE is a compositing tool
Not an editing tool
Send ONE SCENE at a time with handles
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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my question is how to import a small piece of PP project to AE? I’d like to edit in AE a short fragment of my PP project without having to import everything to AE. and i would also like to know how to come about having a trimmed scene imported into after effects, not the original.
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Well, you could copy and paste the section you want into a new Prem timeline and then just import this one timeline into AE. It’ll import all your assets too, even the ones that aren’t in your selected timeline, but you can just delete them or ignore them in the project panel and work on the comp representing the timeline.
If you want to import an edited clip, edit it in premiere and then import the timeline into AE. It will import the unedited asset (the video file itself) and also a new composition which will contain the edited file – double click on it in the project panel to open it up.
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysFX
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