Working Between Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects

During your film projects, you may need to take files from Premiere Pro, and Import them into After Effects. There are many ways of doing this;

The first way and easiest way is to press File - Export Media. This will allow you to take your footage out of Premiere Pro, and have it save onto your computer; you can either save it as an uncompressed AVI, or as a Quicktime movie. You will need to change the codec to a PMG.

This is a what a Premiere Pro document looks like.

This is what an After Effect document looks like.

Saving your work is also important in Premiere, as losing your footage means that it obviously cannot be taking into After Effects.

Once your footage has been exported from Premiere Pro, you can then open After Effects, click File - Import, and then select your footage and it now be in an After Effects document.

A quicker way to put Premiere Files into After Effects is to highlight all of your footage in the Premiere timeline, right click, and then click Replace with After Effects Composition; if you already have After Effects open at this point, a new After Effects Composition will have been made with your Premiere footage.

A disadvantage of this method is that your Premiere footage will have been deleted, as it will now ben in After Effects.

This means you will not be able to make any changes to your footage if you need to. An easy way to solve this problem is to highlight all of your footage, and duplicate it this ensures that you will always have back up footage in Premiere, just incase you need to make adjustments. You may want to save your Premiere file at this point

These are the easiest ways that you can open Premiere files in After Effects.