Illustrator :: How To Use 3D File In After Effects
Mar 19, 2013
I am using Creative Suite 6 Trial, and I made a 3D shape of a cylinder and put a label on it by using symbols, it looks great. But now i feel I have this 3D product (the file itself) in it which I really want to use in After effects to create an animation and fully take advantage of it 3Dness, spin it around, etc. I want to make a product showcase of it, but I am not able to do it.
How to export it into AE in 3d?If its not possible directly can I export it into blender and then save it as an .obj somehow? I tried using photoshop but I couldnt make it work.
How to have the perfect file in illustrator and be able to spin it around but not being able to make that happen in AE.
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Feb 22, 2013
Since upgrading to CS6: when I re-open Illustrator CS6 files, I find that effects such as dropshadow, etc. are rasterized as images or other elements that I can't edit as "effects". I'm the single author of these files, so they're being edited on the same computer and in the same program version. Why this is happening, and how to prevent it? It's really slowing me down.
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Dec 2, 2011
I've been working on embedding an Illustrator Live-Effect plugin to a new Illustrator CS5 plugin.One of the live-effects alters the text of text objects to use standardized abbreviations for place labels in maps.
I have ported the plugin using the exact same Live Effect name and the same parameter names to the live effect dictionary of the art.This in the hope that when I open the illustrator file in CS5 the effect will continue to work on converted text art.
But when I open an Illustrator 10 file in Illustrator CS5, the text object comes up with an "<Unknown>" live effect entry in the Appearance panel. And as the text is converted from legacy text to new ATE-text, the result of the live effect is also gone.
Studying the contents of the illustrator files, I find the following in the Illustrator 10 file
/BasicFilter :
(Abbreviate Text Labels...) 1 0 /Filter ,
(VisualMap Effects) /PluginFileName ,
(Abbreviate Text Labels...) /Title ,
/Dictionary : /NotRecorded ,
4 /Int (vmAbbrType) ,
[code]....
it isn't working because the name of the plugin file is different (or is it another reason?)It's a bit tricky because I have now combined several filters and live effects from several earlier plugins into a single new plugin.
It is easy to receive a notification upon opening a document and check if it's an earlier version of Illustrator.But how do I go about tracing the art tree to "upgrade" these live effects to the current plugin?
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Mar 26, 2013
When converting a vector or Illustrator file (such as a logo) into a shape layer any gradient fill is lost. Is there no way to ensure the gradient fill is converted across or is this a matter for a future release of After Effects?
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Oct 17, 2013
I have created keyframes from audio file and used them to generate some effect, all works fine, it is amazing how easy it is However, I would like to generate flash (?) so that these effects would be dynamic to different audio files after export.
What I want is basically to create effects that can be used in life event to the streaming music.
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Jan 1, 2014
I have edited my video using after effects. I have been unable to export my file to youtube using a valid file name. All of the results have issues with sound and quality.
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Dec 6, 2010
AE CS5 is saying a file path is too long when I do a collect file.The image sequence in question is only 7 directories deep -- which doesn't seem too buried considering how AE wants to structure collected files: /Volumes/HardDrive/ProjectName/CollectFileFolder/(Footage)/CompName/Pr ecompName/results/3Dimage_multipass0000.tif
Is it number of directories deep or overall number of characters in the entire path that's the issue?
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Jul 21, 2013
Why After Effects CC won´t let me import an .obj file as AE CS6?
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Oct 8, 2013
When I tray yo open a After Effects file in a Mac Pro 2013 with Mac OS X 10.8.5 the program shows the AE Suicide after indicate a font problem.
In other Mac Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.8 and the same version of After Effects CS5.0 there are not problems.
I need to work with Mac OS X 10.8.5 .
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Feb 25, 2013
I have a file that opens only in CS6 and I need to open the same file in CS5.5, is it possible to save the file in CS6 as a format that will open in CS5.5? This is urgent as my cs6 trial will run out soon. The file was oroginally started in cs5.5 then opened and saved on a trial of cs6 which is still on going.
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Aug 13, 2012
i'm using Cs4 and my problem is cannot import the mov. file
it shows:
***After Effects error:Can't import file "(file name)"
unsupported filetype or extension.
(0::1)
and i have read "troubleshooting QuickTime errors with After Effects"
[URL]
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Aug 23, 2013
im having problems with the object buffers not working correctly when a i extract them from the C4D file. Not liking this work flow at all. Is there a way to import a AEC file into After Effects CC?
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Jul 22, 2013
When i use photoshop layers in an animation into Ae and try to export as SWF file, it goes wrong. the exported files runs as a black screen and it closes fast!!!
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Mar 14, 2013
I was wondering if there was a way for me to render a full composition in Aftereffects as a Photoshop file (1 document) that contains all the layers?
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Mar 19, 2014
I have 2 computers.
On computer 1, I import a MTS file and it has sound. All good.
On Computer 2., iimport the same MTF file and it has no sound.
Both machines have CS6. Windows 7 and as already mentioned, same MTS file ( coming from Panasoic Camcorder)
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Sep 29, 2013
When I'm rendering some video for example about 10 second with simply effects it gives me much more file size about 5 gb but video is 10 second without some particle effects why? URL....
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Oct 21, 2013
Everytime I try to open my Project File in After Effects CC, it tries to open it, but then freezes. Really frustrating and this project is for a job that I am doing. Put in a lot of work to start over again.
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Jul 22, 2013
AE crashed during the rendering process, a window came out and asked if I would save the file, I did but unfortunately I did not turn it into a new project. After all, AE shutted down.
Then there I was trying to open my project which was saved, although it turns out to be an error which said "missing data in file"
I tried to google it and I looked into like 20 forum pages, I tried putting the project on a new disk and importing instead of opening and stuff.Well I at least learned I should backup the project next time.
But still wondering if there's a way to save my project?
Btw, what does it mean by pressing capslock when importing the project?
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Nov 22, 2013
i accidentally Shift+Del a folder with my AEP's in it. i used a data recovery program to recover those files. now when trying to open them i get this error:
Unable to import file "..." as project (bad format or not readable)i kind of got my hopes up while using the recovery program, can this error be worked around or is the file stuffed ?
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Mar 21, 2013
I am importing a large avi file into After Effects. It is 50 minutes long. When I import it into after effects, it only loads 32 seconds of it. I've tried renaming the file, reloading the program, but it still will only load that small portion of it.
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Apr 5, 2013
I have a map of Manhattan that has been boiled down to just vector lines of the roads. I'm trying to add effects to the lines to kind of stylize the map. I'm trying to create effects similar to the this example that I found online. The photo below was probably NOT created in Illustrator.
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Aug 28, 2013
I'm using a single file on a server that I need two animators to be ablt to work from. Can I do this with having each animator have to work from a separate file?
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Jul 22, 2013
My AE cs6 version is 11.0.2.12, it imports obj file well and I can drag the obj footage to the timeline,since I last did this in June using a form effects.But yesterday when I importing the obj file from the project panel,it warns me with the pop-up window.How can I deal with it?I have uninstall and install for many times,however it doesn't work.
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Jun 11, 2013
Is there a possibility to import .avi files into AE without converting them into an other file?
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Apr 29, 2013
Every time I try to render in AE I get this error message " after effects unable to open file 1610153459" I'm stuck until I find a solution. I've tried some of the solutions I've found on the web, such as using a different drive and changing permissions on drive. While the problem is the same, most of the solutions are for a PC. I have a Mac.
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Feb 4, 2013
I used to be able to modify my ai file and simply replace the file or reload the footage or composition under the file menu in Aftereffects. Now that I am using CS6, no matter what I do, all of the options for replacing or reloading under File menu are grayed out.
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Jul 26, 2013
I had my Mac crash on me a few days ago and since then I've been only able to work on my current project for ten minutes at a time before I get the above dialogue come up.
It's not just this file that suffers from this and there doesn't appear to be a pattern to which file is affected. The files that are mentioned in the dialogue are outputs from both FCP and from AE itself, they are always Quicktimes and they are compressed with the Animation codec, although I've used a number of other codecs and it doesn't seem to make any difference. If I quit and restart AE, I can continue working for a while on a composition with the same file that caused the dialogue to appear, until it happens again, often with a different file mentioned in the dialogue.
We have re-installed the CC suite after an uninstall and clean-up, but to no avail.
Do we need to reinstall the OS? Could it be a quicktime thing?
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Jan 17, 2014
How to make a synchronization between the scene in After Effects and PSD file?
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Mar 1, 2012
I need to produce about 100 videos from a single project changing some images and texts.
I found out that editing aepx files for the project I can change the images paths and do the renders with aerender.exe without needing to enter AE.
The problem are the texts, I found the text part in the aepx, even in Hex format, but when I try to swap one hex word with another, the change simply doesn't reflect in AE nor aerender. It just display the original text.
Is there a way to change the text content directly in the aepx to let me automate the 100 avi production without even entering After Effects?
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Jul 5, 2013
after reinstalling my OSX ML from a time machine I had some several crashing problems in Adobe suite, so I reinstalled them all, My problem is that my Script menu is gone in After Effects...
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Jul 22, 2013
I have opened After Effects CC multiple times, created and saved .c4d files from Cinema 4D Lite and dragged .c4d files onto both applications. I have also restarted the computer many times. The system is running on a new installation on Mac OS on a drive formatted just 2 weeks ago so there should be no issues from strange system changes.
The .c4d files still appear with a Terminal icon and association on Mac OS X. Even when I use "Open With". This is annoying because it is hard to visually find these files without the proper icon on them. They even have the Terminal icon when imported into After Effects.
How can I change the icon system-wide to be correct?
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