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Illustrator File Loading Oddly in After Effects
Hello there! I’ve loaded an illustrator file (ai format) into After Effects as a composition, so I could maintain the layers from illustrator. I’ve worked on the illustrator comp within After Effects, with no problems, however, when I’ve closed AE and re-opened the AE project file, for some reason the illustrator layers are not loading their images up in my comp viewer panel. The odd thing is that if I scrub through the illustrator comp the vector art will flash visible for a moment, but disappear once I stop scrubbing. The other odd thing is that if I change the view quality from anything but full, the vector art suddenly reappears. Unfortunately the work I’m doing requires that I check how the vector art is interacting with other footage in full quality.
I’m not rasterizing the illustrator layers (doesn’t seem to affect my “disappearing” problem from what I can tell), and I have figured out a work around to the “disappearing” illustrator comp by reloading the illustrator layers footage in my project window. However, re-loading the illustrator files is quite tedious every time I re-open after effects, so I was wondering, does anybody know if this is just a bug I’ve stumbled upon, or am I missing an option that should be checked off somewhere within After Effects that somehow stops my illustrator comp layers’ viability from “disappearing?”
I’m using After Effects CS5 and Illustrator CS5. Again, I loaded the Illustrator file within AE as an ai format.
Thanks for any input!
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Thanks for the suggestion. I gave the update a try, but it didn’t change the problem.
It seems to be linked to the resolution setting I choose– if I close AE with my footage at half res in the comp viewer, when I re-open AE it is only the half res that the illustrator images have “disappeared.”
I’ll have to try a test render and see if anything squirrelly is transferring over there too!
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I know that this is going to seem like an irrelevant question, but it’s not:
Do you have thumbnails on or off in the Project panel? You can change this with the Disable Thumbnails In Project Panel preference.
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I looked at the settings– the “Disable Thumbnails in Project Panel” was not checked by me. On the first try I ticked it on out of curiosity to see what would happen, and my illustrator layers “disappeared” on my comp viewer panel instantaneously. I un-checked the Disable Thumbnails after that but nothing returned visible. I restarted AE after that, reloaded the Illustrator footage in my project panel, then played with the Disable Thumbnails and second time round it didn’t seem to faze the illustrator files.
Hopefully that info is of some use!
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I had the same issue. I figured it out with a little investigation. Most likely you project is graphic heavy so you need to open up “Project settings” and change the Color Settings from 8bit to 32 bit Float. that should clear things up for you.
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I have the same issue. Reloading the assets work and sometimes changing the resolution does the trick.. but it is still a reoccurring annoyance. If there is a Fix let me know. Working in a 32bit doesn’t really seem like a solution.
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Don’t know if anyone has suggested this elsewhere or here – don’t have time to read all the replies. But going to Edit->Purge->All solved this problem for me.
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I had the same problem and going to EDIT>PURGE ALL solved it for me. Thanks Duncan!
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