Problem Importing Illustrator File as COMPOSITION into AE .. Layers coming in as Image Sequence

[Dan Swenson]

I also came across this issue today and the only way I was able to fix it is by changing how I named my files. When I have them named Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3 and so forth they come in as a footage sequence no matter what I do. But when I name them things such as Gas Pump Scene and Cloud City Scene they come in as ai layers. I don’t know if this is adobe testing a new thing without telling us or what. Either way I really don’t know if that was what fixed it. But it seems to work.

[Andy Jay]

Hey Walter,

I hadn’t noticed that option button, that’s the fix! ☺

The options button on the import window opens this dialogue ..

My files imported correctly using the ‘options button’ and once I unchecked ‘import as sequence’ .. it now defaults to that.

Thanks for your input all, much appreciated 🙂

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[Michael Szalapski]

Yay! That little button is where I think most of us were thinking the issue was. Glad you found it!

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[Warren Willmott]

Its a simple fix, it also stumped me for a while.

When promted to select file to import into AE, click the options button on bottom left of finder and uncheck sequence.