ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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(Optional) To relink a reference, select the placeholder or footage file in the Project panel, and choose File >
Replace Footage > File. In the Replace Footage File dialog box, select the footage file you want to use. (You can also
open this dialog box by double-clicking the placeholder.) In most cases, you need to relink only one footage file. After
Effects locates other missing items if they’re in the same location.
See also
“Collecting files in one location” on page 598
Working with After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is designed to capture, import, and edit film and video. After Effects is designed to produce
motion graphics and visual effects for film, broadcast, DVD, and the web. You can easily exchange projects, compo-
sitions, tracks, and layers between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. You can import an Adobe Premiere Pro
project into After Effects, or export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project. You can also import
Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects into After Effects.
You can copy and paste layers and tracks between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have Adobe
Production Studio, you can use Adobe Dynamic Link to export After Effects compositions into Adobe Premiere Pro
or Adobe Encore DVD without first rendering them, or you can start Adobe Premiere Pro from within After Effects
and capture footage for use in After Effects.
See also
“Copying between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows only)” on page 126
“About Adobe Dynamic Link (Adobe Production Studio only)” on page 632
“To export an After Effects project to Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows only)” on page 631
To import an Adobe Premiere Pro project
The ability to import Adobe Premiere Pro projects into After Effects for Windows eliminates the need to render the
project before applying visual effects and animations in After Effects. When you import an Adobe Premiere Pro
project, After Effects imports it into the Project panel as both a new composition containing each Adobe Premiere
Pro clip as a layer, and as a folder containing each clip as an individual footage item. If your Adobe Premiere Pro
project contains bins, After Effects converts them to folders within the Adobe Premiere Pro project folder. After
Effects converts nested sequences to nested compositions. You can also import Adobe Premiere projects into After
Effects.
After Effects preserves the order of clips in the Timeline, the footage duration (including all trimmed In and Out
points), and marker and transition locations. After Effects bases the arrangement of layers in the Timeline panel on
the arrangement of clips in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline. After Effects adds Adobe Premiere Pro clips to the
Timeline panel as layers in the order they appeared—from the bottom up and from left to right—in the Adobe
Premiere Pro Timeline. After Effects preserves changes made to the speed of a clip, for example, with the Clip >
Speed command, and these changes appear as a value in the Stretch column in the After Effects Timeline panel.
After Effects imports effects common to both Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, and preserves keyframes for
these effects. If you’re working in Adobe Premiere Pro, an After Effects icon in the Effects panel denotes common
effects used by both applications.