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pedzsan
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May 4, 2025
Question

Canon Raw video file in After Effects

  • May 4, 2025
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This is an After Effects and Premiere Pro question.  I took a Canon 8K raw video file (file suffix .CRM), imported it into After Effects, used its Tracker with the Stabilize option to stabilize the footage, and then imported the composition into a timeline in Premiere Pro.

The problem is that I can not use Premiere Pro's effects panel to set the Color Space and Gamma.  I guess I need to do that first in Premiere Pro?

What is the best way to do this?

 

Note, I tried Premiere Pro's Warp Stabalizer but I wasn't happy with it.

1 reply

Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 21, 2025

Hi @pedzsan:

Place the Canon clip in a Premiere Pro Sequence by itself and make your color adjustments.

Then in your current After Effects project, use File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import Premiere Pro Sequence... to import that Sequence.  You now have Premiere Pro color managed source footage in After Effects.  Add that to a Composition and then copy and paste your tracking results from the Layer in the Comp where you've already run the Tracker to the Layer in the Comp that was just created with the PR Sequence.

Save the After Effects project and then import the new Comp back into Premiere Pro. 

I think this will work for that you're trying to achieve.


- Warren