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  • Too many shape layers

    Posted by Michael Smith on July 19, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    Hi, I have an illustration that I imported into AE. There are hundreds of shapes layers(all of them will be animated shortly) due to the conversion and it’s slowing down the app. I tuned up the the settings for better performance and it helps a bit but what about linking objects? Is there anything I can do about that? Thank you

    Michael Smith replied 3 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Hector Vera

    July 20, 2023 at 5:18 pm

    Do you need to parent link all of your hundreds of object layers in your program? Are you having lag issues with that? Let me know.

    I found a couple of videos that may be able to guide you with this issue, hopefully they help:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvTRE6VedTk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQhUl2Zqms

    Hope to hear back from you soon if you need other help.

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  • Michael Smith

    August 8, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    I found some useful ideas from your link to linking and parenting. As far as sorting out layers for optimal performance I learned to divvy up my project into separate compositions and have them all linked in the ‘project’ tab. This seems to work for me. Thank you, Hector. ‘Sorry to check out for a while

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