AE hates InDesign

[Aaron Kiersky]

Hey dave,
thanks for the quick response. no dice on the importing .indd files to ae, I can do a pdf, but that imports as a single layer file, not allowing me to get at the individual elements. Even if I can’t directly import the document, it seems like I should be able to copy and paste from one to the other.

Software creation is a crazy beast I know, but it seems like if some of adobe’s programs work so well together, why is basic copy and pasting of vector art not a global standard?

I realize that id and ai are not designed for motion, try and tell that to the designers that hand off files to me. 🙂

thanks again,
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

ha ha ha, it sounds like you have practiced that a few times dave!

thanks,
ak

[Steve Roberts]

(Hey Dave, can you ‘shop a feather boa over your profile pic?)

Aaron, can the bozos in the design department make multiple PDFs, one for each desired layer? Make ’em work for their dollar.

[Alasdair Hall]

hey just a question was wondering is you or anyone else could help me out. I have to make an interactive display in my graphic design course at seneca college. I am making a promo interface for a musician in indesign, and we are allowed to use the animation features that indesign has(though i am not an expert in that yet and do not really know how it works) what i wanted to do is create a really sexy waveform/spectrum animation in after effects. and have it in the background of my interface. Is this possible? if so any ideas how? would be very much apreciated

[Aaron Kiersky]

Hi Alasdair,

First of all, this is a pretty old thread you dug up, and your question doesn’t really even relate to the original question. So I would post the same question in the InDesign forum.

That said, to answer your question, It sounds like if you want to create a simulated interface After Effects is a much better option to give it the life of an interactive application. InDesign does have options to add video to pages, but I’m not sure it is going to work the way you are wanting.

From my experience videos in indesign work similarly to on ios devices, you get a poster frame, click play, then it plays on the top layer, over other objects.

But, new features are added all the time, and I have never attempted what you are trying. A quick google search came up with these two articles that may be helpful:
https://indesignsecrets.com/how-to-get-animations-to-work-in-pdf-working-title.php
and
https://indesignsecrets.com/bringing-animation-from-indesign-cs5-into-a-pdf-with-the-help-of-a-little-script.php

good luck!
ak