Importing an After Effects project

You can import one After Effects project into another. Everything from the imported project, including footage files, compositions, and folders, appears inside a new folder in the current Project window. When you want to repeat a complicated mask, effect, or animation in a different project, you can import the project containing the effect and simply replace the source footage, keeping all the effect, composition, and layer settings intact. (See Importing files into a project.)

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Importing After Effects projects from different platforms