• Adobe After Effects

  Reload comp after improvements being made in AI and change in relative positions.

  Posted by Roberto Mata on March 4, 2015 at 6:26 pm

  More like a complaint of desperation than a question but:

  why would a composition change the relative position of MANY of its components (layers) when updating or refreshing after the completion of a modification applied to just one of the layers?

  I’ve improved some illustrator layer (re-drawn) and when I got back into after effects, the position of the rest of the layers was a complete mess.

  Can’t find any reason to that.

  Roberto Mata replied 11 years, 6 months ago 52,342 Members · 4 Replies
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  Roberto Mata

  March 4, 2015 at 6:55 pm

  No, that wasn’t the case.

  I polished one single mouth shape of a character, without changing anything else.
  Now the background elements of the scene are a total mess. Oh, but the mouth is is place… that’s something.

  Oops, forgot: and just to make things a little spicier, one of the elements within a layer imported into after effects as a single AI layer has disappeared. Just great.

  I can’t do anything to revert, once the AI changes were saved, can I?
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  Roberto Mata

  March 4, 2015 at 7:17 pm

  Well, seems I solved it.

  Thing is I had turned off the visibility of some layers in the illustrator file before I saved.
  I’ve opened and turned the visibility on again and everything seems in place in AE.
  Doesn’t make much sense, but it’s solved.
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  Roberto Mata

  March 4, 2015 at 9:02 pm

  I opened the document directly in illustrator, Dave.
  Turned the visibility off to work better on the layer and forgot to turn it on again before I saved.
  (which had no relation with the missing parts of the layer on after effects, as every layer except for one were blinded in AI but just two or three were relocated or missing in AE).

  Yes, a lot of AE weirdness, even for this Windows user.

  Thanks for the help.
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  Roberto Mata

  March 5, 2015 at 11:55 am

  Just one, Dave.
  Anyway my project is back to how it was supposed to, but if I can add anything for people to figure this issue out, I will be glad to help.

  Thanks

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