Illustrator paths to motion paths in After Effects 7.0

[Nate Vander plas]

Someone just posted a question about this. You shouldn’t even have to scroll down to see it.

[Victor Nash]

Silly question, but are you sure you copied the actual path in illustrator?

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

This has happened to me quite frequently. You aren’t alone in the problem. AE is very specific about what you must have in the clipboard, and what you must have selected in the timeline. Make sure you have AICB (or something to that effect) checked on the Illustrator Preferences, under the clipboard category. Other than that, it’s all about trial and error because in 6.5 it was too simple.

Laz.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Sometimes you have to restart AE before pasting from ANY other program works. Happens to me all the time.

Just in case here’s a tutorial covering the setting you need in illustrator:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/import_path/index.html

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[Rob Kahn]

Thanks Aharon. The restart did the trick. I had been resorting to pasting the paths in 6.5 when needed and then opening the project in 7.0. I had in fact seen the paths tutorial and make a point of checking out all your tutorials. They’re great.

And Lazlo, it was reassuring to know I wasn’t the only one who had this issue.

Nate and taxi. Fridays are tough. I hope next week is better.

Rob

[Ivan Kander]

Thanks for this! I just spent the last hour going nuts.

Definitely got to be some sort of bug in AE CS4