Copy past from Premiere to AE
by Scott Rucci
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Aug 17, 2009 at 2:45:42 pm
Hi. When I copy and paste clips from Premiere to After Effects, my Premiere dissolves are not translating into AE transparency keyframes. There are no transparency keyframes in AE, just the 2 overlapping clips. Anyone experienced this? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Copy past from Premiere to AE by Jon Barrie on Aug 18, 2009 at 1:59:08 am
Just tested it and you're right there is a bug there.
work around. Add a single opacity keyframe and the copy paste will bring in the cross fade points too.
I use the Replace with After Effects comp and that seems to work with cross dissolve, haven't used the CS3 workflow since getting CS4 - I'll file a bug report.
Re: Copy past from Premiere to AE by Scott Rucci on Aug 18, 2009 at 1:15:52 pm
Thanks for your help, the workaround works. This brought up a couple of other issues if you have a minute.
When I pasted the Premiere clips into AE it created individual comps for each clip then put the comps into my existing comp (it precomped every clip). I thought when I'd done this in the past it just brought over the footage, without making a bunch of precomps. Do you know what's going on there?
Also you alluded to only using the CS4 workflow now and not copying and pasting as in CS3. I don't find that to work very well for me. It's great the first time, I do a dynamic link>new after effects comp and it moves my timeline over. But then if I make adjustments in Premiere (it's much better suited to timing and audio work), copying and pasting seems to be the only practical way to add those changes back into the AE comp. I don't want to import the Premiere sequence into after effects because I'm working on individual layers. Is there a more efficient work flow that what I'm doing?
Re: Copy past from Premiere to AE by Jon Barrie on Aug 18, 2009 at 11:03:42 pm
I only do my AE work once I've finished my edit. I make a duplicate timeline of my edit and add _wAE on the end of the seq name. I use this seq timeline to do my AE replacing so the original maintains the original clips and I can go backwards if I really need to.
With the _AE seq:
Select the clip/s you want (and would paste into AE),
Go to File>Adobe Dynamic Link>Replace with AE comp.
It opens AE for you, asks you save the AE project name and puts the edited material into a comp/or adds it immediately to an AE project you already have open.
The clip/s that were in PPro have now been replaced with the AE Comp.
If you have cross fades involved I'd use them on another layer so the fade goes over the top of the clip/s it crosses. That way the in/out points are also including the handles of the fades that will come over to AE. (Clips side by side don't replace with transition handles against shots not part of the AE replacement).
It's a shot at a time workflow. Pretty much exactly what you would do with copy and paste but faster and more automated.
