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Importing Adobe Premiere projects


    The ability to import Adobe Premiere projects eliminates the need to render the project before applying visual effects and animations in After Effects. When you import an Adobe Premiere 5.0 or later project, After Effects imports it into the Project window as both a new composition containing each Adobe Premiere clip as a layer, and as a folder containing each clip as an individual footage item. If your Adobe Premiere project contains bins, After Effects converts them to folders within the Adobe Premiere project folder.

    After Effects preserves the order of clips in the Timeline, the footage duration (including all trimmed In and Out points), and the marker and transition locations. The arrangement of layers in the Timeline window is based on the arrangement of clips in the Premiere Timeline. After Effects adds Adobe Premiere clips to the Timeline window as layers in the order they appeared--from the bottom up and from left to right--in the Premiere Timeline.

    Transitions and titles included in your Adobe Premiere project appear in the After Effects composition as solid layers, maintaining their original location and duration. After Effects discards all transparency and motion settings. See Importing files into a project for the procedure for importing.

    Import Adobe Premiere projects in the same way you import footage files: choosing File > Import > File, and locating the Adobe Premiere project file that you want to import.