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  • Can I change .ai files from Millions of colors to Grayscale ?

    Posted by Ace Billet on October 12, 2005 at 3:17 pm

    I have a 3d comp with some massive textures created in Illustrator. (about 2000X2000 pixels each)
    In the project window I see AE interperts them as “Millions of Colors+”.

    Is there any way to change these graphics to some sort of greyscale, so they would render quickly
    (is there any differnece, anyway ?)

    cheers
    ace

    Ace Billet replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Barend Onneweer

    October 12, 2005 at 3:21 pm

    No… even if there were, AE converts everything to RGB color space anyway, for compositing.

    Do you have continuous rasterize on? That could slow down things. Sometimes it helps to create tifs from the illustrator art, unless you are going to need the vectors up close.

    Try previewing at half res, or skipping every other frame during RAM preview to speed up previewing.

    Bar3nd

  • Serge Hamad

    October 12, 2005 at 3:33 pm

    Hi,

    If your previews are too slow you could also use proxies.

    Salut.
    Serge

  • Ace Billet

    October 13, 2005 at 9:56 am

    Thanks for the replys guys.

    I’m working proxies now. only problem is that collapse trans. thing..
    oh well, it’s a chance to see if my brain will remember to turn these on
    during render bonanaza ..

    cheers
    ace

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