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Problem Importing Premiere Pro Projects
Hi,
I’ve searched the forums and have not found an answer to this one. I’m performing basic cuts in Premiere Pro 2.0 including the occassional cross-dissolve, and I’d like to import that into After Effects 7.0 for color corrections and other post processing. In AE I open the import dialog, select my PP2 project, and import it. In the next dialog I chose the sequence(s).
Here’s the problem: the cross dissolves are not getting imported properly. The opacity keyframes import ok, but the clips for each side of the dissolve are truncated and end at the cut point. Extra frames are not included to allow the dissolve to work.
Has anyone run into this, or is there a solution?
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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It’s really not recommended to do your transitions in PP before importing the project to AE. The transition information is rendered in PP and saved as a seperate file in the PP cache. In essence the workings going on behind the scenes in PP have taken your two transitioned clips and created 3 clips butted end to end (Clip A-transition render-Clip B), you don’t physically see it that way on the time-line, but that’s what’s goiong on. When you import it into AE the tags are cut at the rendered transition point. You won’t be able to CC the transition if it was rendered in PP.
My suggestion is to create a copy of your PP timeline as a seperate comp and remove all transitions before sending it to AE. By the way you should be able to just copy and paste you PP project directly into an appropriately sized AE comp, it saves time. Do your transitions in AE, but if you absolutely must do them in PP, then do it after the color corection stage. PP’s render engine is a bit unweildy at times, but do what you have to. Good luck. -
Everything I’ve been reading, in the AE help files and on the web, indicate that AE converts cross-dissolves into opacity keyframes. I can confirm that this is what AE is attempting to do, it’s just not setting the size of the clips properly to accomodate the keyframes. I’m not rendering my previews in Premiere. I’m not rendering any thing at all. Just performing the cuts and applying a couple cross-dissolves. Regarding copy and paste from Premiere to AE, that exhibits the same problem.
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I don’t have a copy in front of me right now, but in AE and/or PP options change the default length of footage handles (or tag frames). AE needs to know that there is more information beyond the clip in and out points in PP to use.
If there isn’t, well then…
PP makes up the need for extra frames to complete the transition by literally freezing the last frame of the clip until the transition is complete (only happens when the capture didn’t have any handles on either end of the capture, and that’s somethin you set up.) If this is what has happened, then that may explain why AE doesn’t see the extra frames. They’re not there.
Also, and I don’t remember the source on this, but I think I may have run into a problem with a difference in PP’s and AE’s interpretation of the starting frame, whether it be 0 or 1. I may be totally off on that, it’s been a while since I did anything that way.
Anyhow…
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I kept digging, and I found the solution over on Adobe’s Forums, in this thread, titled “Big Import/Export Copy/Paste issue between AEF7.0 and Ppro2.0 !!!”. Here’s the link: https://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bbe7c8b
My clips in Premiere were set to Scale To Frame Size. Oops. 🙂 When I turned that option off, they imported flawlessly. 🙂 🙂 I’ve changed my general preferences to prevent this problem in future projects. I hope this information is useful for someone else.
Thanks!
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