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User Guide
The imported footage appears in the Project window. For more information about
importing folder contents, see “Importing a sequence of still-image files” on page 70.
Note: If the Interpret Footage dialog box appears instead, the imported footage item contains
an unlabeled alpha channel, and you’ll need to select a type or click Guess to let After Effects
determine the type. See “Interpreting alpha channels as straight or premultiplied” on page 72.
To search for a file in Mac OS, click Find, type the name of a file or folder, and click OK.
After Effects finds the first file or folder that matches the text.
To import items by dragging:
From the desktop or a folder, select one or more items you want to import and drag them
to the After Effects application icon (on the Windows Explorer or Macintosh Finder) or to
the Project window (in After Effects).
If you import a folder by dragging it from the desktop, the contents of that folder are
imported as a sequence. To import the contents as individual footage files, press Alt
(Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you drag. (This is the equivalent of clicking the Import
Folder button in step 4 of the previous procedure, “To import footage into a Project
window.”) If you always want the layered footage that you drag into After Effects to be
imported as a composition, you can specify this in your Import Preferences.
To set default preference for dragging layered footage:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Import.
2 In the Default Drag Import As pop-up menu, choose Comp.
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