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Mike Choo
Inspiring
December 18, 2024
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Add an option to select specific comps when importing AE projects

  • December 18, 2024
  • 4 replies
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Hey!

 

The idea here is when importing an After Effects project into your current one, you would have the option to either bring in the entire project, as is the current behaviour, OR to select the specific comp(s) you wanted to import and only they would be brought in, along with the assets used in those comps.

 

This could behave in a similar manner to Premiere importing another project - similar to the  'Import Project' modal. The equivalent option from that list to the proposed idea would be 'Import selected sequences'.

 

The reason this would be useful is to import assets from a different AE project at the moment can be time consuming. There are existing options - either import the entire reference project (which can either result in a bloated main project, or time spent pruning the unwanted parts, with the associated risk of accidentally deleting something that's used), or to reduce the source project and/or some variant of save comp as project.

 

Being able to select the comps to import would be a big workflow help, especially when working across multiple projects for the same client/brand. It would cut out a lot of steps, and increase confidence that you have a clean project and the assets you need are correctly imported.

 

I guess that expression-referenced objects might not come in properly, as per the existing warnings in Reduce project, so an info note would probably be needed as well.

 

Cheers!

4 replies

Stargazer on ARM
Known Participant
April 12, 2026

Yes, a very VERY good idea!

Unless it is implemented already, this is an old thread an I haven’t really checked the update logs lately.

 

The only workaround as far as I know is to save the project as a new AE “transfer” project and delete everything you don’t want to import. Importing a whole project can get quite messy if you have a lot of comps and only the one or the few that you want to recycle.

 

Sincerely yours,

Stargazer

Participating Frequently
March 13, 2025

Agree, good idea 

thepixelsmith
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 30, 2024

This is a very good idea.

motionben
Known Participant
December 30, 2024

Great idea that could save time and offer more flexibility to users. +1