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Illustrator Vectors into AE
I created some artwork in Illustrator that I want to use in AE but when I brought in the AI file, it didn’t retain the vectorness of the artwork. Its all rasterized and when I go up close, its very artifacty. How do I bring the vector artwork in so that it retains its scalability?
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The help files would be of great benefit to you here.
There is a button to press on your layers to “continually rasterize” which means it’ll read the vector data. I’m not in front of my AE machine right now, but I’d be able to show you in a second where it was if I were there. It looks like a squashed bug or a black sun, depending on who’s describing it.– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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I tried that right after I posted and it fixed a lot but I still don’t get the nice crisp lines I am looking for.
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Sometimes text and other things can look a bit jaggy depending on what kind of preview you’ve got going on; especially with aspect ratio correction on. Try a quick little render and see how it looks.
If that doesn’t work, please get a pic of what it looks like so we can see it.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Here is a still from it. Just a random frame. The pixel aspect ratio is off because of the DVC Pro codec so ignore that.
https://files.jordanmontreuil.com/vectortest.tif
It’s alright but I expected sharp crisp lines.
I wonder. If I copied the AI files to larger document and scaled all the vectors up so they were huge and then reimported that document, would that change it? Maybe the increase of vector size would translate well?
I would try it but I’m going to bed soon. So it’ll have to wait until the morrow.
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Are these 3D layers? That can effectively soften some of the edges of a layer. I believe this is actually a result of added anti-aliasing.
The only other reason I can think of for something rasterizing incorrectly would be raster effects applied in Illustrator.
Darby Edelen
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They are 3D layers. And there are no effects on the layers. They are all simple paths with fills and outlines. Nothing more.
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Have you tried checking the anti aliasing settings under Interpret Footage?
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[Jordan Montreuil] “They are 3D layers. And there are no effects on the layers. They are all simple paths with fills and outlines. Nothing more.”
Well then I would suggest that you’re seeing the softening of edges I described on continuously rasterized vector art 3D layers.
You can do a simple test for yourself:
1) Place an AI or EPS layer into an AE comp and continuously rasterize it
2) Scale the layer to a random value like 123%
3) Duplicate the layer and make the top layer a 3D layer
4) Set the top layer’s blend mode to Difference
5) Note the non-black pixels around the edges, this is where the 3D layer and the 2D layer differ in rendering (despite the fact that they are the exact same layer, same scale, same comp position)
You can turn the 3D switch on and off on the top layer to see that this is what causes the difference in rendering. With the 3D switch off the layers are identical. You’ll also notice this softening on 3D text layers rendered in AE.
Darby Edelen
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Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
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