How to Import One After Effects Composition into Another Project

[@mickeyromeo]

starts at 1:10

[@glennhughesmusic]

OMG, thank you Mickey

[@gabrielherrera6651]

Thanks. I really HATE when a tutorial could be reduced to 20 secs and ends this long unnecessarily.

[@海-n9w]

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[@Elizath]

Thanks!

[@berhalaaztec720]

go fuck yourself, you have no manner. no wonder you are poor. you too mickey

[@NARUHOTEL]

Almost 5 years later and this video continues to be helpful for newbs like me. Thanks!

[@meseyoungboy]

Im not technically just my computer is.

[@Lynyj]

Takeaway 1. go to file/dependency/collect files 2. dropdown the collect source file, select "for selected comps"; tick "reduce project" 3. import the .aep file in the new project

[@EthanChlebowski]

Short, simple, and to the point. Much appreciated.

[@esattunagur3540]

How did I manage to find Ethan Chlebowski burried in this old AE tutorial :o

[@alanjohnson4541]

Best tutorial on KZbin that explains this process by a mile. Thank you.

[@MrZZooh]

This was a lifesaver. After Effects would keep throwing one of middle comp's pics on top of my last composition and no matter what I did, it just wouldn't go away. So re-importing the newly worked comp into my old file was the only option.

[@PurpleDrink1]

Damn I deleted scenes from a project I straight up couldn't fix without redoing everything, this helped me a lot! Thanks!

[@Seiai]

I've been collecting my project as a final save version, but I didn't realize you could do it for single compositions. This is going to be a real time saver. It's nice to be able to reuse what you can! Thanks for the upload.

[@VasilyGurzhiy]

When i return back to AE to do some kind of more advanced effect i return to this video as well, man you've saved me quite a good amount of time. Thank you!

[@theorncampbell4432]

Deadline is looming, I've been awake for over 24 hours, you just saved me from a miserable demise. Thank you friend!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

so glad to help!

[@SkillsNT]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you

[@clarkdarius8700]

instablaster.

[@JAK_EDITS.]

Absolute legend, literally didn't know this was possible. Thank you!!

[@nicolebry1120]

Man thank you! This is just what I needed to save myself some time! Been looking everywhere for a simple tutorial like this one!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Hope I was able to help you. Thank you so much for watching!

[@cutterjohnston5668]

A big THANK YOU for a clear and concise tutorial for this overly caffeinated New Yorker that has no patience for superfluous information.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

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[@ArturZygmunt]

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[@bodrulahmed858]

Really Thankful to you. I was really struggling because i did not know this technique ! Really appreciate it. Best Wishes for Video School Online !

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Bodrul Ahmed thanks!

[@salagrande]

Thanks. Would never have figured this out without your video.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+D.E. Berry you're welcome!

[@georgeraividian]

You've got no idea how much I had to search to find this. Thank you!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

glad to help!

[@Mighty_Ceasar]

I searched the internet for hours for a comprehensive guide on how to make this work...*starts to cry* thank you so much.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

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[@davidebenatti5178]

its such a huge help to work with other mates on the same project! Thanks so much

[@bobearl6362]

FANTASTIC VIDEO... I really needed this. You are a good teacher. Thank you.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

glad to help!

[@bobearl6362]

WOW - Thanks for commenting back =) Love the channel!

[@HatBuiNho]

thanks a lot! I search for it hours!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Thanks so much for watching! I'm glad I was able to help you out :) If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so to help me grow my channel. Cheers, Phil

[@DrTraceyMarks]

This will save me so much time. Thank you.

[@INDIANMUSICMAFIA]

how do i add that lower third on video???. i got the project file but m not able to out that lower text on top of my video

[@mohitmojito]

Thank you! For anyone wondering why they don't have "Dependencies" under Files,its cause you just don't. Instead you just have "Collect files" under Files tab.

[@SGarrison2127]

saved me ! separated a gigantic project into a bunch of small guys. thanksthanks

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Thank you so much for watching my video. I really hoped it helped you.

[@LAWRENCEcanDRAW]

Perfect. No nonsense tutorial. Thanks fella!

[@Ender_FPV]

Thank you for putting the instructions in the description!

[@dm.b7560]

Simple, direct, perfect, thanks guys.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+David Moreno Belmonte cheers!

[@MrRsheeler]

Amazing simple and straight forward!! Great video. Thanks for the tips!!

[@laynebatt4790]

Hi Phil, thanks for this tip! so often i needed to do this but for some reason or another never got to it - this time however i needed to know it and finally learned it - your tutorial was great, big help! Thank you

[@360lotus]

Thx, but for some reason, even after selecting the composition in the project, dependencies won't allow me to select only one composition, the only option is to select all. Any thoughts?

[@DebanjanMukherjeeanimator]

this is exactly what i was searching for -Thanks Video School Online

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Debanjan Mukherjee you are welcome!

[@gaboloramusic]

Awesome tip!! Thanks!!

[@technicaldisasters]

This was a big help. Thanks for putting it out there.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

you're welcome!

[@Retro_80s_Guy]

Thank you for a concise, informative tutorial

[@ThuggLifee99]

Thank you for the time and effort for teaching such a small task! very helpful! :)

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+S K cheers!

[@bethreilly4433]

I didn't know that it would be so easy. Thanks a lot for your help!

[@DrNitro09]

This tip was something I've been struggling when making g¿huge explainer videos with templates that take forever to load, if you try to combine elements from one or other, After effects turns into a Supermassive Black Hole of RAM, it's just redonkulous haha. I subscribed because you sir, saved my life! Thanks so much!

[@zoebrinkley2351]

Thanks for the tutorial. Videos like this really help out.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

cheers!

[@ViveVioPermana]

Cool! This what I need. Thanks, Dude.

[@elijah_thornberry]

Perfect! Thank you for this, it's going in the AE bookmarks folder for sure.

[@IvyTapales119]

Brilliant! Saved me from my cluttered and chaotic workspace 😂

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Ivy Tapales :)

[@davey_edwards]

thanks for this and putting it on youtube! I have taken the Udemy course but searching for things is so much easier with youtube

[@JoseRodriguez-un2kc]

You're the man! You saved me so much time!

[@videoshare5324]

This is really well done! Thanks so much. Hey,...this may sound dumb,..but how do I export a composition out with no background (as you touched on really quickly in the beginning) so that I can bring it in as a clip to another project? I don't need it to be edited any further,..but rather I just want to import it into a new project as a stand alone clip.

[@trishirtstv]

Very helpful tip... Really like it a lot and I probably going to use it a lot on my works...

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Adriano Ott cheers!

[@pmpzen]

Just found a need for this and I know I'll be using it a lot! thanks!

[@CurtisDominguezYo]

Oh god thank you. I was tired of setting up the same thing every time.

[@sharonmckay2676]

Even after choosing "For Selected Comps" at the beginning, it creates the whole file again rather than the composition alone. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[@KameeriNL]

mine does this too... collects the whole project :(

[@Lenin7787]

Select "For Selected Comps, additionally select the "Reduce Project" option to collect only the respective files.

[@funymotion2453]

exactly what I'm looking for, thanks alot

[@garethpauljones]

Really helpful video! Nice one

[@julianosorio8631]

Fantastic explanation! Helped me out in so many projects! Thanks!

[@mattferris3767]

Quick and right to the point. Thanks for the help!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Matt Ferris you are quite welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@karinaelias8124]

Thanks! Very quick and easy to follow. Huge help

[@chakshikagosain5802]

i need to send my credits comp to someone through email, how do i do that? i have used a downloaded font in it, it cant really get through... what do i do?

[@YonTanto]

This tutorial is really helpful and it works for me, thanks!

[@roseproductions3417]

Thank you so much! I appreciate you getting right to the point and made it understandable :)

[@VladMe90]

Great video. Really helpful. Thanks!

[@katharineparsons2171]

Awesome, Phil. Thanks so much!

[@mayankbargode1781]

thanks for the upload much needed!

[@alexshapiro1306]

Worked perfectly, thank you! If you're wondering this method still worked on AE CC 2017

[@mitryvideo]

Concise and useful video! Thanks a lot

[@ReneArreolaArt]

I follow everything you show and I'm able to export and import into a new project. But the animation does not finish. I have an effect where a circle is drawn and text appears to slide in, but it does not finish where the text slides back into hiding and the circle should undraw itself making it vanish. Any thoughts?

[@Suraj2561997]

nice video! How to do this same thing for the layers? I have used animations on texts (layer) and want to import them to new project but this video only covers compositions.

[@rafibernardo]

This rockety ockety ocks. Man. I needed this short tutorial so bad

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

haha glad to help!

[@rrexless]

for some reason for me when I do that it puts the whole project into files, even after doing "For Selected Comps" and "Reduce Project". Can someone please help?

[@srrannoo]

same did you figure it out

[@conesillyvalley7182]

Good tut, came in handy. Thanks!

[@ChicoAzevedo]

Thanks man! Save my time here at my job!!!

[@kak93]

Thank you so much! It was driving me insane trying to figure this out.

[@Vizarteful]

simply but to the point! thanks!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Vicky Daelli glad to help!

[@barneymorisette4015]

THANK YOU!!! - i'm not a pro at this and just need to do some mods to a package that was professionally done (i.e. laid out with 1,000 nested comps) - this helped tremendously.

[@jojostls]

Hey there and thank you for the video. What I want to ask you is if I can do this for a project I have created in after effects 2020 for after effects 2024. So basically I have created some projects in after effects 2020, but I want to download the 2024 version and what I'm asking is if in this way that you explained in the video will work for me, I want to import those projects from after effects 2020 into after effects 2024! Please, tell me if this will work for me!! Thanks in advance. 🙌🙌

[@barrowmeoct04]

Thank you very much, this has saved me soooooo much time. I am pretty new to After Effects so stuff like this is really helping. Thanks again.

[@drumkickgaming]

Really useful, thanks for sharing!

[@AaronChan_CreativeDirector]

Very Useful Tutorial, Thank mate :)

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

Thanks so much for watching! I'm glad I was able to help you out :) If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so to help me grow my channel. Cheers, Phil

[@edencane]

Awesome! Thanks Phil!

[@bobhaentjens]

Daar was ik zelf niet opgekomen!!!!! Merci

[@instantimprints422]

Thanks, this was a great help!

[@rbivproductions7146]

Big help my man. Thank you

[@oneskysky3985]

very nice, its easy to understand

[@heeroyuy3709]

is it possible to export the lower third you want, and then import into premier pro, and do the editing inside the premier pro?

[@JayCDee8]

Thank you very much, saved me a lot of time!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

you're welcome!

[@169PNSL]

Thanks a lot. You are my savior! Seriously.

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

cheers!

[@mooreazin7809]

Thank you for making this very easy :)

[@burroid]

Super helpful! Thank you. I am coming across a problem actually that I don't know if you have experienced before with this technique. I'm using the new composition in a new project and almost everything looks fine. The only issue is that if I turn on "Continuously Rasterize" a mask that I created using "Set Matte" doesn't display the content inside. The reason I'm turning that on it's because I want to resize the comp and when I do if that is not turned on my vector layers look terrible :( Any suggestions?

[@AymanKhalifa]

Thanks a lot for sharing useful information

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

of course! Thanks for watching!

[@Olina-Live2D]

Amazing clear and short. Thank you very much!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Olina Chang cheers

[@HarshVardhanArt]

Thank you Phil!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Harsh Vardhan Art you're welcome!

[@JohnMaboko]

You're a life saver! Thanks...

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+John Maboko you're welcome.

[@iwpsurf]

Perfect! I couldn't find this information on Adobe's help site.

[@charliemakescartoons]

Thank you for this, one suggestion though. Please get to the point at the beginning, this tutorial didn't really start until 1:15 and didn't need to go beyond 2:40. It could have easily been a 30 second tut. Other than that, this was a time-saving tip so thank you for sharing.

[@learnwithpromo]

Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial. Could you please show me that how to add a android phone instead of this iphone in a premade after ae template? Please help me brother. Thanks a lot

[@KurtDeVylder]

Great! Just what I needed. Tnx!

[@RodneyDodson]

Everytime I do it, all the layers are pushed back to the beginning of the time line. They are all there but none of them are there but ill have to move them again.

[@karoleira]

Thank youuu!!! Quick and easy! :)

[@jecamartinez]

THIS IS SO HELPFUL! Thanks a bunch!

[@VideoSchoolOnline]

+Jeca Martinez Art glad to help!

[@stov]

Helped me a lot. Thanks.

[@MrPakstons]

saved my life. thank u!!!

[@huyphamuc6372]

Question: Isn't it that After Effect allows you to import project (.aep) file while working on current project? Just import the .aep file you want and take the composition from the .aep file you just imported?