Pro IO

Importing & Exporting: Automated. Pro IO for After Effects and Premiere Pro is a one-stop solution for getting media in and out of your application with ease.

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Description

Importing & Exporting: Automated

Pro IO for After Effects and Premiere Pro is a one-stop solution for getting media in and out of your application with ease.

Watch Bins allow you to link system directories to your project bins, so that you can easily sync your bins and import any new assets with one click. Keeping your projects up to date and constantly organized.

Export Presets allow you to queue multiple render jobs in After Effects or Media Encoder from multiple comps or sequences, matching your custom naming conventions and destinations with one click.

Tired of searching through the same folders to find files every time you have to import, and typing the same file names, navigating to the right destinations again and again every time you have to export? Pro IO solves this repetition by automating and streamlining the entire importing and exporting process, making it faster and more accurate, saving you time and supercharging your workflow.

Features

Watch Bins - Importing Automated

Link - Link system directories to your project bins once with absolute or relative paths.

Sync - Press the sync button at any time, and all new assets are imported into your Watch Bins.

Subfolders - Choose to include, flatten, or ignore subfolders of each Watch Bin.

Image Sequences - Enable Image Sequences to identify sequentially named images and import them as image sequences.

Selective Sync - You can choose to only sync certain Watch Bins by selecting the bins and pressing Sync.

Export Presets - Exporting Automated

AE or Media Encoder - Pro IO in After Effects allows you to queue render jobs in Media encoder or the AE render queue.

Preset Templates - use Preset and Render Templates for rendering in AE, use EPR preset files to render in Media Encoder.

Naming Format - Customize your own naming format using a variety of wildcards including version, version by stem, project name, sequence/comp name, and a variety of time and date stamps.

Destination - Set your destination path relative to the project file or an absolute directory.

Subfolder - Choose to create a subfolder for the exported file(s). This is ideal for image sequence exports.

Output Modules - Create as many output modules for each Export Preset as needed. Rendering final files is now one click!

Settings

Refresh Image Sequences - Turn on or off the refreshing of image sequences upon syncing your watch bins.

Color Label Watch Bins - This option will color label your Watch Bins blue so they easily stand out from your other bins.

Reduce Upon Export (AE Only) - This will reduce your project upon rendering to save time rendering (the original project is unaffected).

Trim Upon Export (AE Only) - This will trim your comp to your workarea on export to save time rendering (the original project is unaffected).

Allowed File Name Endings - Edit this text file to choose which types of files you want your Watch Bins to import. A default list of all common file types is set, but you can change as needed.

Preset File Location - This file contains all your Export Presets settings and you can easily copy and paste this file to a co-worker's computer to share your presets with them.

What People are Saying about Pro IO

Lester Banks

@lesterbanks

Are you tired of having to search through the same directories any time you want to import something? Importing elements can sound trivial, but if you are working with tons of media, both import and export can take up a lot of time, not to mention being monotonous. Justin Taylor certainly thought so as he created a new tool that can help automate the process. Pro IO offers powerful watch folders and export presets...

School of Motion

@SchoolOfMotion

Streamline your workflow in After Effects and Premiere Pro with Pro IO from @aescripts. Watch bins for new media, queue up multiple renders for export, and much more!...

Olive Welsh

olivewelsh.com

I LOVE Pro IO, for projects that are heavy cg comps or long 2D edits w a ton of stock elements, it's a lifesaver.

Chris Olson

Chris Olson Films

This is absolutely incredible. I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about this. I’ve dreamed of having this for years! THANK YOU!

Andrew Brady

@andrewbrady

Bought it. This is the perfect tool for my personal system. Nice work @justin2taylor https://aescripts.com/pro-io/

Chris Galegar

@ChrisGalegar

I just integrated @justin2taylor’s Pro IO extension (https://aescripts.com/pro-io ) into all of my PH templates, and I’m in automation heaven!

Mike J. Nichols

@TheEditDoctor

thanks @justin2taylor for the need PRO IO aescripts Premiere Pro addition… Just for the LIVE folder aspect alone…

Mark Velasco

@itsmjvelasco

Such an awesome tool that speeds and automates importing and exporting renders. Highly suggest you get this at aescripts!!

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Version History

2.17.6 -

Dec 15, 2022

macOS Ventura bug fix for Premiere 2023

2.17.5 -

Oct 20, 2022

CC 2023 Compatibility

2.17.4 -

Oct 13, 2022

CC 2022 Bug Fixes

2.17.3 -

Dec 3, 2021

Prefs Path and AME Version Fixes

2.17.2 -

Nov 16, 2021

Compatible with PPRO Beta & AE Beta

2.17.1 -

Nov 4, 2021

Ignore dot files on import

2.17.0 -

Oct 27, 2021

- Added support for After Effects 2022 and Premiere Pro 2022

2.16.4 -

Mar 31, 2021

- Width, Height, FPS Wildcards Added

- Bug fix with relative paths

2.16.3 -

Mar 11, 2021

- Compatible with CC 2021

- Misc bug fixes

2.16.2 -

Mar 24, 2020

Exporting bug with Japanese After Effects fixed.

2.16.1 -

Jan 24, 2020

Exporting bug with Japanese Premiere Pro fixed.

2.16.0 -

Nov 8, 2019

Adobe CC 2020 compatibility and macOS Catalina compatibility added. ARI files can now be imported as image sequences.

2.15.9 -

Jul 27, 2019

After Codecs AME export compatibility added. DPX sequence import compatibility added.

2.15.8 -

Jun 5, 2019

Multiple AE comp export to AME error resolved and issue with HFS drives on Windows. Miscellaneous bug fixes.

2.15.7 -

Feb 15, 2019

Issue resolved with image sequences missing first frames in Premiere Pro.

2.15.6 -

Feb 14, 2019

Issue with TIFF Image Sequences Resolved

2.15.5 -

Feb 7, 2019

Initial Public Release

2.15.1 -

Sep 18, 2018

Initial Beta Release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024

Premiere Pro

2026, 2025, 2024

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