AE - Illustrator question
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- Xentic
Hi! I have been drawing an animation in illustrator. I have every frame of the animation in another layer in Illustrator. What's the best way to turn al these layers into different frames in After Effects? I know I can export as SWF but is there any other way? When I import the SWF I get the animation with a background color... I want the background to be transparent. Anyone?
- drunktank0
if you want to do what i think you do
save each frame out as either png's or gif's with transparency
AE supports both
- Xentic0
thanks, yes that's what I meant. The problem is that I have more than 150 layers... I was hoping there was a faster way to do it...
- diddins0
If you have all your frames in different layers in Illustr. then you should import the AI file as a composition into after effects. That way you get all your frames in differnet layers too in AE.
- drunktank0
gotcha
yep import ai file and choose layers
- Kompo0
...then use the "layer sequence" command in AE to distribute your numerous layers in the timeline (you can make them overlap or not and chose the timing lenght for these layers though)
- nextseason0
sequence layers in AI.
import illustrator file as Comp(cropped layers).
select all
trim layers to all be one keyframe long
right click / keyframe assistant / sequence layers