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The Mavo
Inspiring
Jul 21, 2021 4:04 AM UTC
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Why Can’t I Paste Cuts from Premiere into After Effects?

I routinely copy clips from my Premiere timeline and paste them into my After Effects compositions. AE usually accepts them and all the effects keyframes, etc., intact so they appear just as they did in Premiere.

 

But, now, for some reason I can’t figure out, AE won’t allow me to paste the clips into my composition at all. Note that I am using the same AE project file I have previously pasted clips into before.

 

What is happening? Is there some setting that I accidentally changed?

Rameez_Khan
Rameez_KhanCorrect answer
Legend
Aug 17, 2021 11:07 PM UTC

Hi all,

 

This issue has been fixed in After Effects 18.4.1.

 

Best,

Rameez

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screenname_abc
Known Participant
May 14, 2025 4:43 PM UTC

AE 23.6.2 Not working

Premiere 24.6.4

 

Not used AE in a while.  I really don't want to update I am in the middele of projects and more often than not have issues when updating software and then everyone here says "well you shouldnt update mid project" but... if I don't update mid project, I can't finish the project.. which puts me at risk of being taken offline.

 

Any suggestions how such a basic feature can become corrupt?

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nishu_kush
nishu_kush
Legend
May 15, 2025 2:54 PM UTC

Hi there,

 

Can you share more details? Are you unable to copy and paste from Premiere Pro or any app? Are you on MacOS or Windows? If you're not able to make any progress without updating, then I'd suggest updating the app. Keep a backup of your project, and do not remove the 23.X version. You can install the latest version as a separate install.

Note: If you remove the 23.X version, you won't be able to install it again.

Looking forward to your response.


Thanks,
Nishu

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Rameez_Khan
Rameez_KhanCorrect answer
Legend
Aug 17, 2021 11:07 PM UTC

Hi all,

 

This issue has been fixed in After Effects 18.4.1.

 

Best,

Rameez

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chfilm
Inspiring
May 26, 2022 3:04 PM UTC

I'm on after effects 22.4.1 and it still doesnt work! I need to reboot the entire machine for it to work once or twice, before it fails again. WTF?

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    Andy Adkins
    Known Participant
    Nov 7, 2022 10:04 PM UTC

    For anyone that runs into this... What I experienced is that it is still a problem when there is a mismatch between versions of Premiere and AE. So check that first. It might work between minor revisions, not sure. But copy/paste clips from the ppro timeline to ae wasn't working for, and I realized I was using 2023 premiere and 2022 AE. Updated AE and it now works. Pretty dumb but is what it is.

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      Roland Kahlenberg
      Roland Kahlenberg
      Legend
      Jul 28, 2021 3:20 AM UTC

      The solution seems to have been found - https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta/can-t-copy-paste-text-from-other-apps-into-after-effects/td-p/12071186/page/2#M1105

      Let us know if following the instructions solves your issue. Thanks.

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      The MavoAuthor
      Inspiring
      Jul 25, 2021 9:06 PM UTC

      The issue is continuing to happen. Any more advice (before, hopefully, Adobe releases a new update that resolves the issue)?

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      Kartika Rawat
      Community Manager
      Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      Jul 27, 2021 7:46 PM UTC

      Hi there!

      Sorry about the experience. We're aware of the issue and working on it. Currently, we don't have a workaround on this.

      I hope we'll fix this soon.

      Thanks,

      Kartika

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      The MavoAuthor
      Inspiring
      Jul 28, 2021 12:18 AM UTC

      Thanks, Kartika.

       

      Well, I think this issue certainly qualifies as a good reason for Adobe to issue that next update as quickly as possible.

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      mk2046
      Participant
      Jul 22, 2021 1:06 PM UTC

      I'm having the same problem. It goes beyond just the video clips and keyframes for me. I'm also not able to paste text from outside sources. I do this every day and it stopped working the day I updated.

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      The MavoAuthor
      Inspiring
      Jul 23, 2021 3:16 AM UTC

      Same for me, MK. It seems AE became debilitated when I updated to the current version (18.4.0). To judge from the number of people having this issue, it seems to be a bug with the current version of AE.

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      nishu_kush
      nishu_kush
      Legend
      Jul 21, 2021 5:43 PM UTC

      Hi The Mavo,

       

      Sorry for your issue.

      Could you test if you're able to paste from any other application or it's just the Premiere Pro? Could you share a screen recording of the issue?

      Looking forward to your response.

       

      Thanks,

      Nishu

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      The MavoAuthor
      Inspiring
      Jul 23, 2021 3:14 AM UTC

      Hello, Nishu. Following your request, I just copied different types of content from various applications (Illustrator, Photoshop, TextEdit, Word), then tried to paste them into After Effects. AE will not paste any of them. It doesn’t even recognize that anything is in the clipboard to be pasted. The Paste command in the Edit menu of AE is grayed-out.

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      marcelo hs69692927
      Participant
      Jul 21, 2021 2:03 PM UTC

      I have the same problem.

      I can't paste audio or video from Premiere into my composition.

      After the last update of version 18.4.0

       

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      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      Jul 21, 2021 6:48 AM UTC

      Start by checking your hardware acceleration stuff and update your graphics driver if necessary. This stuff clearly has somehow been affected in the latest builds and your inability to paste content could simply relate to AE not knowing how to decode it because of these issues. Also verify folder permissions and user privileges. Problems with caches and temp files could be at play here just as well. Anything else will require more info liek what actual formats are used, comp/ sequence settings, system info and so on.

       

      Mylenium

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