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USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
Workflows and setup
Last updated 1/16/2012
If you want to broadcast the final movie it is best to ensure, in Photoshop, that the colors in your image are broadcast-
safe. Assign the appropriate destination color space—for example, SDTV (Rec. 601)—to the document in Photoshop.
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Import 3D layers from Photoshop
Create and edit Photoshop files
You can create a still Photoshop file that automatically inherits the pixel and frame aspect ratio settings of your
Premiere Pro project. You can also edit any still image file in a Premiere Pro project in Photoshop.
Create a Photoshop file in a project
❖
Choose File
> New
> Photoshop File.
Photoshop opens with a new blank still image. The pixel dimensions match the project’s video frame size, and image
guides show the title-safe and action-safe areas for the project.
Edit a still image file in Photoshop
From within a project, you can open an image file in most formats that Adobe Photoshop supports. Premiere Pro does
not import files in CMYK or LAB color formats.
1
Select a still-image clip in either the Project panel or Timeline panel.
2
Choose Edit > Edit In Adobe Photoshop.
The file opens in Photoshop. When you save the file, changes are available in the Premiere Pro project.
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Export a still image
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Copy between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
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From the After Effects Timeline panel, you can copy layers based on audio or video footage items (including solids)
and paste them into the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
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From the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel, you can copy assets (any items in a track) and paste them into the
After EffectsTimeline panel.
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From either After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro, you can copy and paste footage items to the other’s Project panel.
Note:
You can’t, however, paste footage items from the After Effects Project panel into the Adobe Premiere Pro
Timeline panel.
If you want to work with all clips or a single sequence from an AdobePremiere Pro project, use the Import command
instead to import the project into After Effects.
Use Adobe Dynamic Link to create dynamic links, without rendering, between new or existing compositions in After
Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. (See “
About Dynamic Link (Production Premium or Master Collection only)
” on
page
36.)