Illustrator Masks in After Effects
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- CyBrainX
Adobe is too smart to neglect such a feature but... I read their step by step.
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To import a path from Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop:1. Open Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop and create a path.
2. Select all of the control points on the path that you want to copy to After Effects.
3. Choose Edit > Copy.
4. Open After Effects.
5. Open the Layer or Composition window into which you want to paste the path, and choose Edit > Paste.Note: Each path from Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop is imported into After Effects as one mask.
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I tried to do that and of course it didn't work. It doesn't really make any sense anyway. Would the path create a mask? Does there have to be a mask present to begin with? After Effects doesn't even think there is anything on the clipboard.
- CyBrainX0
I'd really like to know if anyone knows about this. For now, I just drew my mask in After Effects. All I wanted was a rounded box that will change size, but retain the roundness of the corners.
Next time, I might need a complex shape. I only like to draw in Illustrator. No other program has a better pen tool. Not even Photoshop.
- hoser0
this does work.....click on the layer in the timeline window, then paste. i've only had luck doing this from illustrator, so if you have a path in photoshop, just paste it into illustrator first.
also, if you highlight the position of a layer, and paste a circle for example, you can get the object to travel in a circle.
AE is sooo nice
- CyBrainX0
I tried again, exactly as you and Adobe told me, but it didn't work. Are you on OS X?
- islandbridge0
Open Preferences in AI. Choose files & clipboard in the dropdown. Check AICB -Preserve Path...or something like that ..I think =)
- vellan0
yeah, this should work...i do more AE work in OS9 just because of plug-in, but in AE5.5 it works for me.
- CyBrainX0
Islandbridge, you not only cured my AE problem, but now I have the option to paste paths or shape layers into Photoshop for the first time since I started using AI 10. I owe you big time. That was a two for one tip. Thanks.