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Jesse Jackson
April 26, 2011 at 12:57 am in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

Final Update on CS4 issue:

Had to re-install CS4 AE to 9.0.0.346 to get ai imports to work properly. ai reinstall before hand didn’t help but possible the two together.

Anyways, moving on to CS5…..
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 10:42 pm in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

Your CS5 .ai file works perfectly when importing to my AE CS4 and AE CS5. Either something in the CS4 Illustrator update threw it off or I have some weird setting that won’t let go. Reseting all my CS4 Illustrator prefs didn’t help.

Curious if this could also be a PDF/Acrobat issue.
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 10:11 pm in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

Could you downsave your illustrator file to CS4 and see if you can replicate my results? Curious if this is an Illustrator settting. Attached is my CS4 AI version of your artwork as well.

https://f1.creativecow.net/2251/cs4-ai-import?uploaded=file
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 8:35 pm in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

I am. The layer still holds on to the artboard size, even when inside comp folder.
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 8:03 pm in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

I upgraded to CS5 thinking the new verbiage “Retain Layer Sizes” would help. It didn’t.
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 7:32 pm in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

Makes sense, and I’ll totally do that moving forward if this problem persists. As for the artwork I was able to import before, that disregarded the artboard (or cropped around artwork), I wonder why that stopped functioning. Was it a bug to begin with? Sucks this happened mid project.
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 6:49 pm in reply to: AE Stopped Importing Illustrator Footage to Bounding Box

Just upgraded to CS5 and it has the same problem. Possible the problem is me?
Jesse Jackson
April 25, 2011 at 3:05 am in reply to: Problem with AI files in After Effects

I’m having the exact same problem. After installing update, AI files started importing at comp size instead of artwork bounding box. This happened mid project so if I edit and reload any artwork the bounding box now the size of the AI artboard.

AI files/Footage I previously imported are fine and still bound to the artwork. However, If I try to import the exact same file now, I get this problem. There must be a setting in AE for this, seems simple enough, can’t figure it out.

I reset my prefs, nothing changed.
Importing as a comp/comp-cropped layers doesn’t help either.
Collapse transformations did not help as suggested above.

Current CS4 Versions
AE 9.0.3.8
AI 14.0.0

Why does AE not want to let go of the AI artboard now? Any ideas very much appreciated. Thanks.