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Illustrator to AE
Hello Bovine Oracles
i know this has been covered in other posts-but i’m having no success in trying to copy Illustrator masks into AE.I have AE6.5pro and IllCS2.When I copy in Ill. and switch over to ae I get nothing , nada as if it hasn’t copied to the clipboard. I have done the whole edit>prefrences>files and clipboard aicb stuff but to no avail. Illustrator was installed after AE, could that be a problem?
please try to keep the chuckles to yourself if i’m being a retard
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milk was a bad choice…
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3 Replies
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Please describe your process in detail, step by step. Describe what you are selecting and copying, and what is selected in AE before pasting.
Steve
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Hi Steve
Thanks for replying so quick.I was marque selecting all the paths I wanted and copying ctrl+c then switching to after effects and tried to paste them ctrl+v to a layer.Literally nothing more complicated. When i did this nothing would happen in AE.Then i tried a differnt tack and shutdown AE, repeated the whole selecting and copying malarky, opened AE, new comp, new layer,ctrl+v and hey presto hello masks!so I reckon it’s some sort of clipboard thing about having both progs running-but then again what would I know!!!
milk was a bad choice…
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hey, sounds crazy that it would work after shutting AE down and then on again. and again that’s not an entirely fun thing to do all the time. I actually had the same problem and what I had to do was to check the settings in Illustrator in > preferences > file handling & clipboard :: and there check that it copy to PDF is not checked and that AICB is checked together with preserve paths. after I sorted that it worked a charm. you might have done this already and have another hitch on the line somewhere, but it might be worth a look.
good luck
/d 🙂
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