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working .EPS/.ai files
question. does AE rasterize eps and illustrator files when it imports them? or should i be importing them a certain way? i thought they were supposed to be fully scalable, but when i make them larger, they get pixelated/ugly. all i was able to do was resize the image in illustrator, but that makes the computer run much slower especially for previewing. am i missing something here?
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We have noticed that loading projects that contain EPS/.ai file can take much longer than expected. We assume that indeed AE is rasterizing those images.
If there’s a way to get around it we’d love to hear about it because this can be a nasty performance hit in some cases.
Ben
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in essence, would it just be better to take the vector art and create your own very large rasterized psd version of it? i should do a test unless someone beats me to it first
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Do you have the Continuosly Rasterize button checked for the Illustrator layer? It’s the little sun-like check box, near frame blending and motion blur.
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a while back i was wondering about this exact issue and read some about it here at the cow (in the archives). it seemed then, that even if you have the continously rasterize switch activated AE can’t really deal with zooming in to minute detail of a illustrator graphic, but will pixelate at a certain point anyway. though, of course, you got much more leverage than on an normal sized photoshop file. if you scale your images up incredible in photoshp though, you’ll for sure run into ram problems, at least i do. what i’ve found to be the best way to deal with illustrator files is to just copy the paths (when possible) into AE and then put them on a solid, which has been made into the right size at which i am plannign to zoom in to. /d
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