[David Cabestany]

Don’t know about FCP, but AE can accept Illustrator files natively and they all come with an “automatically generated” alpha channel on it, you do not need to export them and artificially generate tha alpha on Photoshop, just save them as CS4 (CS3 if you are in AE CS3) with create PDF Compatible File checked.

Also keep in ind that Illustrator can separate each object into a different layer for you, then you either import each separate layer as you need them or import the whole set as a composition. Go to the layers panel, click on the little twirly in the top right corner and select Release to Layers, sequence or build depending on your needs, each object or group of objects will be separated to its own layer.

Premiere Pro also accepts Illustrator files natively with the alpha channel so chances are FCP does as well.

Best,

D.

[David Cabestany]

Christy, as long as your files (banners) do not contain any pixel images (links from Photoshop, .tif, .jpgs, etc) you can make them super small and then scale them up when you are ready to deliver, however, same way they do not pixelate/degrade they also do not increase its file size by working at a smaller proportion; probably you are leaving the “link” option unchecked when placing external images on your Illustrator file, which is causing the foreign object to be effectively embedded into your document and dramatically increasing its size. Effects in illustrator are also known for seriously decreasing performance, whenever possible avoid them and create them directly in Photoshop. Also if you have large portions of text (I mean more than one paragraph) you might want to switch to Indesign, Illustrator is brought to its knees as soon as you start putting lots of text on it, specially if it linked among paragraphs.

[David Cabestany]

Nanda, the only way to get the font to gradually increase its size on a sentence is by manually setting it.
To change the side of the path (inwards/outwards) the text flows in you need to finish writing your copy and click it, you will see an I-beam at the middle of your text object (see attached, is very subtle and can be easily missed) click it and drag it to the side you want your text to be in.

Best,

D.

[David Cabestany]

Perhaps you are exporting in cmyk mode and has to be in rgb?

[David Cabestany]

Thanks Aaron, I didn’t really understand anything of what you just said, but it sounds like is not going to happen soon. Don’t take it personal, I’m a total newbie when it comes to video shooting with
dslrs and I was very exited at the possibility of using onLocation with the 7D. Let’s hope for am update in the near future.

[David Cabestany]

Go to: file>save as, leave the format as illustrator. The next window will prompt you for the version, you MUST select illustrator 8 for cinema 4d, no other version newer or older will work. You also need to delete any guides you might have in your document or c4d will interpret them as extra splines.

[David Cabestany]

You don’t need to move each element by hand to a new layer, if you go to the layers palette menu and hit on release to layers (with the object selected) Illustrator will automatically separate each object or group of objects to its own layer.

[David Cabestany]

Try clicking unite without hitting alt/option at the same time. CS4 went back to the way it was in older versions of Illustrator, when no alt pressing was needed.

D.

[David Cabestany]

How I didn’t think of that? It’s so simple.

Thanks!

D.

[David Cabestany]

Double click on the eyedropper icon, you should have all the options selected, regardless, don’t get high hopes, there’s a known Illustrator bug that makes the eyedropper behave weirdly. Sometimes it also shows as it picked a color but when you paint an object with it, it will go black, this is particularly true when painting text objects.

Do not expect a patch from Adobe, it’s been like this for ages.

D.