Question regarding copying clips from Premiere and pasting into AE (CS5.5)

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Question regarding copying clips from Premiere and pasting into AE (CS5.5)

Posted by Nathan Gross on August 25, 2011 at 3:30 pm

I have a Premiere project that has been edited by someone else. I’m going to be adding graphics in AE. I would like to follow the same (or similar) workflow that Andrew Kramer describes in this tutorial:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/trim_compose_script/

He simply copies the trimmed clips from Premiere and pastes them into a new project/comp in AE. The result he gets is the actual video clips being pasted. When I do this, I get pre-comps pasted instead.

Is there any reason I end up with pre-comps vs the actual clips? I would like to use the script he offers (on the aforementioned link) to make more manageable pre-comps.

I hope this makes sense 😉

Thanks!
Nathan

Nathan Gross replied 14 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Robert Ober
August 26, 2011 at 12:44 am

[Nathan Gross] “He simply copies the trimmed clips from Premiere and pastes them into a new project/comp in AE.”

You do realize you can use Dynamic Link instead of this?

Robert
Tom Daigon
August 26, 2011 at 1:05 am

Here is another thread that discusses this issue. Todd from Adobe participates.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/788399?tstart=0

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Nathan Gross
August 26, 2011 at 1:38 am

Thanks for the response. I am familiar with dynamic linking and I do intend to explore that option… however I am interested in finding out a solution to my issue—why copying clips from Premiere and pasted into AE come in as pre-comps.
Nathan Gross
August 26, 2011 at 1:39 am

haha yeah I’m familiar with that post. That’s me at the very bottom – bldg13.

😉

Still looking for a solution or answer.
Tom Daigon
August 26, 2011 at 1:42 am

The point in sending you that link had nothing to do with Dynamic Linking. I was showing you that someone else has been experiencing the undesired precomp creation syndrome going from PrP to AE and that they were in touch with Todd Kopriva who works for Adobe quite a while ago. He may have an update for you if you contact him or flag him down with a post on this forum.

Tom Daigon
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Nathan Gross
August 26, 2011 at 1:45 am

Sorry Tom, that was an intended as a reply to Robert.
Tom Daigon
August 26, 2011 at 4:48 am

Ooooops, never mind…

Tom Daigon
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Nathan Gross
August 28, 2011 at 11:23 pm

I found out what the issue was.

I was already aware that if any affects are applied in Premiere, they will be carried over into AE within the pre comp. I looked at all the clips and found that no settings had been changed.

What I did not realize, was that all the clips in Premiere had “Scale to frame size” applied. Once I turn that off on all the clips they can be copied and pasted into AE as excepted.

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