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DirkV71
DirkV71
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July 2, 2018
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Problem Importing Photoshop Timeline into After Effects

  • July 2, 2018
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Hi, i´m trying to import a PSD-file with timeline into AE.

After selecting the file in AE i got a error Quicktime not installed or version to old.

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I found a post from 2012 for this issue an i wondering that there is no solution for this error.

This on Mac and on PC.

I there any bugfix or workaround to get a PSD-File with timeline into AE to continue

my work there.

Regards, Dirk

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    Correct answer Roei Tzoref

    If the Ps timeline has a video in it, it won't import correctly and you will get an error message and still frame instead of the video. unfortunately videos are not supported in crossing over from Ps-Ae. You could manually import the video to Ae instead.

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    Roei Tzoref
    Roei TzorefCorrect answer
    Legend
    July 2, 2018

    If the Ps timeline has a video in it, it won't import correctly and you will get an error message and still frame instead of the video. unfortunately videos are not supported in crossing over from Ps-Ae. You could manually import the video to Ae instead.

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    skyeboysteve
    Participant
    July 7, 2018

    I was wondering the same thing as DirkV71.  I've come across countless tutorials on importing videos color graded with Photoshop into After Affects... so it seems like this USED to be a feature with AE at some point, but not any more?  I sure wish they'd bring this back; as I really can only get the color correction that looks great from Photoshop's RAW filter, that I can't from AE or Premier.

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    skyeboysteve
    Participant
    July 27, 2018

    Here's an example of it being used: Photoshop and AE: Color Grading Video - YouTube

    Thank you. Yes this appear to have worked before CS6. at least for importing as Footage (checked and you still get the error in CC2018)

    if you are working with video, I would invest the time and learn about color correction and working with Lumetri, here's a very detailed resource about it: https://blog.frame.io/2018/05/21/premiere-lumetri-guide/


    FWIW, I've had my brother (who's been in the video editing industry for nearly 30 years) try to duplicate what I get with Camera Raw vs. Lumetri and Resolve and he can't get anything close.  He thinks the problem though is in part due to the video I shoot in, (DJI Phantom 4 Pro which uses the color sub-sampling of 4-2-0).  For whatever reason, Raw filter seems to handle this low quality color sub-sampling better... but I think Premiere was probably designed to edit with better quality video to begin with.

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