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illustrator files are cropped
Hi – I am importing adobe illustrator cs3 files into motion 2.1. When i add a blur filter to the image, the blur doesn’t seem to extend past an ‘imaginary’ cropped area. It’s as though the file has been cropped tightly to the illustrator artwork. i can’t find any way to control this through Ai or Motion.
Any ideas?
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7 Replies
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Try applying the blur to the group, not the object.
Peter
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Hi – no this doesn’t work either. Also, when I try to add a distortion filter to the imported file, it only shows the filter within the cropped area… I may have to work around it using alpha channels in photoshop.
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Did you change the crop area in AI?
Jeremy
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I have tried that also – it doesn’t seem to make any difference. I’ve opened the ai file in photoshop at 720px x 576px with a transparent background and this works OK. I’m new to motion and final cut – this might be a glitch of some sort… cheers for the advice.
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Are you sure you changed the crop area and not the ‘stage’ area in AI?
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If you look at the blur paramaters in the filters tab there is an option to crop with a tick box next to it, make sure this is unchecked.
Hope this helps.
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Make sure that the element you are trying to blur has fixed resolution turned off. There is a good text file on this on http://www.motionsmarts.com
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