Work more easily with leading Adobe products

New integration makes it easier than ever to work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Premiere Pro files in your After Effects compositions.

Adobe Photoshop

You can preserve layers in sequence files, set the layer's bounding box to the composition size, and preserve guides to specify how you want your Adobe Photoshop layers to import. After Effects tracks layer order even if you reorder them in the original PSD. When you import text, the formatting is preserved, and you can edit it directly in Composition window using the Convert to Editable Text command. For information on After Effects integration with Adobe Photoshop, see Importing Adobe Photoshop files.

Adobe Illustrator

Set a layer's bounding box to fit each layer when you import Adobe Illustrator documents, making it easier to manipulate individual layer elements and speeding up rendering. You can also apply effects and masks directly to Adobe Illustrator files that have continuous rasterization--no more precomposing. For information on After Effects integration with Adobe Illustrator, see Importing an Adobe Illustrator, PDF, or EPS file.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Import nested sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro as nested compositions. Now when you import files with keyframed transparency, cross-dissolve, and motion values, After Effects converts them to transform keyframes; it also converts crop marks to masks. For information on After Effects integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, see Importing Adobe Premiere projects.