• Adobe After Effects

  Import Illustrator Dashed Line Settings into AE

  Posted by Mio Tanaka on February 19, 2016 at 3:21 am

  Hi,

  Is there a way to import Illustrator dashed lines with their settings, stoke weight, dash and gap values, into After Effects as a shape layer, so that they can be trimmed and animated later?

  I know how to make dashed lines in After Effects, but I need to recreate them in After Effects each time and it’s such a time-consuming process. So I was wondering if there’s any scripts to do the job…

  Thanks in advance,
  Mio

  Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 10 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kalleheikki Kannisto

  February 19, 2016 at 8:16 am

  Perhaps bring them in twice, once as illustrations with the dash patterns, then as paths? You could use the path as a track matte for the illustration, making it just a bit thicker than the line in the illustration. Then you can animate the matte (stroke) with trim paths.

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