If you want a feature fixed, it has to be used a lot. When users start clamoring for new features, it is the loudest voices that get heard. Then, if you need them, just turn them on and add graphics.īut by not using or recommending this technique, you’re diminishing the chances that Adobe will ever add the ability to remember layers by name.Īdobe works on the “noisy wheel” theory. If there is any remote chance you will need a new layer, add some empty layers and set them to non-print. But Bob Levine had a great suggestion in his post way back in 2009. The solution is to reduce the image size to something more manageable.I don’t like what happens when you add a layer to the Illustrator file.
So huge that AE struggles to show it (on PC, strange things that my weak mac air has no problem.) ! Turns out mine was 4947x9178, 363dpi ! Even if I worked in a 1080x1920 artboard ! Open your Window > Links panel, and select your faulty image. Even if you're image appears in a small portion of your artboard, illustrator manages links to your assets, as AE and InDesign do, and use the original size of the asset. What you have to watch is the image size. I figured out it had something to do with the image settings inside AI. I turns out that the not showing image imported from AI finally appeared, but took 15 minutes to do so, no loading bar to hint me. I tried everything suggested in this forum and looked for answers on the net, nothing worked for me.īut while trying different settings on AI, I let AE opened with this problematic imported file. I also have to mention that this problem only occured on PC, on Mac everything ran fine.
No matter what I did, nothing showed up in AE for this image, even though other vector layers were ok. Had a similar problem, I was working on an illustrator file with an image in one of my layers. More about preparing your work from Ai to Ae in here: Preparing and importing still images in After Effects
but what am I explaining this when you actually have the lovely Trish Meyer to explain it to you in this free video from Lynda: After Effects Hidden Gems When I import it to Ae, it will not be cropped as stated in the tutorial later in this post, this is said to be a magic size for this trick to work and not crop layers, but I have found that any artboard that is larger then the HD artboard and contains the cropped elements this is good
It's an HD artboard on top of a very big 14400x14400 artboard. It comes with 2 artboards and this is a good thing: Let's see for example the HDTV1080 Preset. for this reason there are video templates in Ai and they have 2 Artboards and not one so that object that are on the pasteboard (or partly on the pasteboard) won't be cropped in Ae. for example a common output is HD (1920x1080) so you would to work with an artboard at that size, and if you got objects bleeding to the pasteboard - you want another artboard that is bigger than HD and contains the partly cropped object. you should work within your final output dimensions. different sized artboards are great for the design process in Ai, but when you want to prepare your files for Ae.
you can work with 2 artboards when importing an illustrator file to After Effects and sometimes you really should. You can't have more than one artboard in your illustrator file.