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Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Adobe Premiere® Pro is designed to capture, import, and edit movies. After Effects is designed to create motion graphics, apply visual effects, composite visual elements, perform color correction, and perform other post-production tasks for movies.

You can easily exchange projects, compositions, sequences, tracks, and layers between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro:

  • You can import an Adobe Premiere Pro project into After Effects. You can 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 Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium, you can also do the following:

  • Use Adobe Dynamic Link to work with After Effects compositions in Adobe Premiere Pro without first rendering them. A dynamically linked composition appears as a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro.

  • Use Adobe Dynamic Link to work with Adobe Premiere Pro sequences without first rendering them. A dynamically linked sequence appears as a composition in After Effects.

  • Start Adobe Premiere Pro from within After Effects and capture footage for use in After Effects.

To see video tutorials about working with After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro using Dynamic Link, see the Adobe website: