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AI to AE 2017 Paste formatted text – Broken!
Trying out CC 2017 here and came up against a nasty problem:
Used to be VERY useful to paste formatted text from Illustrator to After Effects. It’s better to create layouts in Illustrator and when it’s done, copy over to AfterFX for animation. And TEXT animation mostly always uses animating thing like kerning, scale per letter, thing like that, something ONLY able to achieve with text. Hence, we need to move the text from AI to AE. Copy/paste used to be the BEST and FASTEST way to do this (other than export from AI to PSD, convert RGB, import in AE and “convert to text” – whoa!), but now, in version 2017, seems like this functionality is BROKEN! Oh no!!
Could you guys confirm this?
Thanks a lot!Erik.
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Hello Dave!
Well, I’m a MAC user. What system do you use? Windows? That would be the only reason why you’d say that this isn’t possible, I guess. But really, it is! I’ve always done this. I even commented on a post from Dan Donner (from 2010!) talking about such Copy/Paste feature. I wonder if this is really something only Mac users get to glance at, then?
I might just go ahead and make a screen capture of this in action for you to see for yourself. It’s an awesome thing to do, really! ????Erik
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And here’s the proof.
I recorded this video and set it up at my youtube channel.
Ah, and this time the copy/paste worked from AI to AE… must have been some sort of font bug, maybe. The text and formatting went around AE, AI and PS with no problem at all this time! ☺Video:
https://youtu.be/vjE0_W_1Dr0Erik
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Have you seen the video, Dave?
It’s a really good feature for Mac users – all the AfterFX with Macs I know do this. I’m curious to know why you thought this was never possible. Only thing I can think of is the system (PCs, maybe?). It’s good to have knowledge of things that happen around in different systems. ????Thanks!
Erik
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