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. If you accidentally closed a tool panel and you want to get it back, you can simply re-enable it from the Window menu.You can't have more than one artboard in your illustrator file. These can be configured and generally, you can drag any tool panel around and dock it wherever you like to fully customize your After Effects interface. On the right side of the window you will find a number of tool panels.
As you play back your or scrub through your composition, the preview window will update automatically. The preview window in the middle of the screen will show you what your composition looks like at the current time position. The vertical red line in your timeline window is the current time indicator and you can grab and drag the little triangle head to scrub through your composition. If youre working with 16 bpc compositions and need alpha, you should export the Alpha in 16 bit. 8 bit Alpha cannot be reimported in a 16 bpc AE project.
This bar indicates when the layer starts and ends and you can move them around or adjust their start or end time at will :) After Effects CC 2014 on Mac OS (when the video is re-imported back into AE) On Windows ProRes 4444 with. On the right side you will see the life bar for each layer. On the left side you can see all the layers in your composition and this is where you can manage their order and properties. The timeline displays the contents of the current composition you are working on. You can create folders here and I do recommend that you keep your files properly organized as it can get pretty messy pretty fast, especially when you work on more complicated VFX. The project window will show you a list of all the files you imported into your project as well as any compositions you created.