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Illustrator Brush Vectors won’t Vectorize in AE cs4
Hi all,
so after painstakingly making this .ai file, and figuring out how to import them as layers, they aren’t being vectorized by AE (even though I checked the little sun thing). I have tried making them huge, but only to see that when I scale them down, they again become horribly pixelated. I can’t seem to wrap my head around this one, and have tried so many options. Could the fact that I used a vector brush set I imported into illustrator to make the content? If so, is there a way for AE to recognize that brush set so it will vectorize?
Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks in advance!
On a side note, I was able to do this in flash, but I need to be working in AE for all the other elements
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5 Replies
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you may need to convert the vector bush to path in illustrator…
in illustrator, select the paths that have a vector brush applied, then choose object>expand appearance. this should convert brush to vectors.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Thanks for the response, but unfortunately, no dice. I tried to expand appearance, outline stroke, rasterize then live paint (which leads to wavy edges and would be a pain to do for each one). I am wondering if there is a way to import the brushes into AE. Maybe that would solve the problem?
I am beginning to wonder why there is no problem importing these into flash, but AE is having so much trouble. I will eventually have to use AE for the camera effects, and import from Maya, plus I will need to tweak the flash to match. Are there any resources out there that could help? I already have lynda.com, and there’s nothing there.
Appreciated!
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i took a look at this at work today. i have cs3 (both ai and ae) and i tried this what you are doing with a brush set that came with ai. i am having no issues creating a brush line and importing into ae and using continuously rasterize and scaling the vector art. everything looks nice and smooth….
so, it may be a problem with the vector brush set that you are using, or maybe a problem with the cs4 suite…
to try and trouble shoot the cs4 suite, you might try saving the ai file as an earlier version and import it into ae to see if you still see the same problem.
if you think it may be the vector brush set, try creating a quick test file using a brush set that came with ai and see if that file has any problems (obviously, this doesn’t help you out much, but at least it may point out where the problem is…)
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
So, after trying all of the above to no avail, I decided to just give my computer a break by restarting, running some maintenance apps, (repair permissions, clean cache etc). Then, lo and behold, everything works like a charm… all of my layers are coming in even in the right place, and are wonderfully continually rasterized. The .ai files were all CS4 as well. Well, next time something doesn’t work this will definitely be my FIRST step!
Thanks For all your help Kevin!
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yep, a good ol’ reboot can often help… if you’re interested, here’s the general order of things that i do when ae acts up.
- choose edit>purge>all to clear out the caches
- quit and restart ae to make sure the aeselflink render engines get reset
- reboot to make sure everything gets reset
- pull the ae pref file to the desktop (on a mac it’s in users/username/library/preferences/adobe/after effects/versionnumber, it’s called something like adobe after effects version prefs) to make sure a preference isn’t causing problems. if it doesn’t help, move the old pref file back to get the settings back
- repair permissions and verify startup disk (if necessary, run the disk utility from the osx install disc to repair the disk problem)
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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