• Adobe After Effects

  Trouble importing AI paths

  Posted by Seth Hancock on February 19, 2008 at 10:53 pm

  Hey all,

  I have not experienced this before so I am perplexed. I have a file over in AI with several paths. Whenever I try to cut and paste the paths from this .eps file AE locks up and I ultimately have to Force Quit. The AI layer is in RBG mode and not CMYK.

  Do I need to convert this to an .ai document first and then bring over the paths? I have not had to do that before but perhaps someone knows a lot more about this than me. Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Seth

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  Seth Hancock replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Seth Hancock

  February 19, 2008 at 11:01 pm

  My Activity Monitor is telling me that AE is using 100% of the CPU. This is just from importing paths???? Something must be wrong. Is there a way to test my RAM. I have 8 gigs.

  I can send the AI file and comp if anyone wants to test. This is just a test comp with one solid and me trying to import paths.

  Seth

  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
  Thomas A. Edison
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  Darby Edelen

  February 19, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  It doesn’t seem like this would be the issue, but Adobe’s help files have this to say:

  “To make the data copied from Illustrator compatible with After Effects, the AICB option must be selected in the Files & Clipboard section of the Adobe Illustrator Preferences dialog box.”

  There’s more information here:

  https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WSE4F03C08-9074-45eb-842E-2BF05D297249.html

  Darby Edelen
  Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA
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  Seth Hancock

  February 20, 2008 at 12:19 am

  Darby,

  Thanks for the reply. I have that box checked so I don’t know the issue. I do know that this is the only file of all that were sent that causes this problem. I need to talk with the creator about this file and see what we can do to revise it. All other files worked as expected.

  It looks like it is just a glitch in this particular file.

  Thanks again.

  Seth

  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
  Thomas A. Edison

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