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After Effects and PDF Files Need Help
I have a PDF with 150 pages that need to be brought into After Effects. Seems like After Effects will only see the 1st page. Is there a work around or plugin for this.
It’s kind of Crazy After Effects will see all the layers of photoshop, but not the pages of a PDF. I hope Adobe take note of this limiting issue.
So far all I can see is to seperate all the 150 pages and bring them into After Effects seperate. Link them all back and then make my scroll.
I hope you can help.
Curtis
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There are PDF to PSD converters out there that might help you here. On small PDFs, I usually open them in Photoshop, which will give me a new comp for each page. Then I just combine all of them into one file (a layer for each page) and save it out as a PSD. But, like I said, I do this with SMALL PDFs, like less than 25 pages. In your case, I don’t know… Not sure I would take the time to do that, unless they’re paying well.
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[Curtis] ”
It’s kind of Crazy After Effects will see all the layers of photoshop, but not the pages of a PDF. I hope Adobe take note of this limiting issue”No, absolutely not. Forgive me, but the way you are wanting to use your PDF is more than just a little exotic. I’d understand if you’d complain about not recognizing layers, but pages? I’m sure you have your reasons, but in all fairness, it would be much wiser to convert the PDF to bitmap layers in a PSD or whatever. Even if AE supported multi-page PDFs, it would slow down considerably because it needs to rasterize all the vector data and it would be simply unusable.
Mylenium
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You could create a photoshop action that will take each page and convert it to a jpeg/tiff/ what ever you want.
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