Originally Posted by ltrain2015 That seems a little cumbersome. Is that the way most people do it? Are there advantages to opening the premiere project file in AE and some how working with segments individually then save the project file back to premiere? I am just fishing here. |
I think you misundertood me. You can NOT open a Premiere Pro project file in After Effects.
You have to export a video clip to an AVI file and then bring that into a brand new AE project.
They are two seperate tools for two seperate jobs.
think of Premier pro (simplistically I know) as a roll of sticky tape for sticking many different pieces of coloured paper into oen long multi coloured one.
Now suppose someone comes along and says "I want a shiny star in the middle fo that one".
Well, pull just that one bit into AE, add a shiny star, then use Premiere Pro to stick it into the middle of your long stream of bits.
now you could stick them all together and then use AE toadd your shiny star into the middle fo the whole thing but that justmakes twice as much processing. You will have to render your entire movie once in Premiere and then again in AE just to add a star to maybe a hundred frames.