[Mike Clasby]

Here, here!

Gone are the “good old days”.

I too can’t find many of those oldies but goodies. I have to end up Googling many different ways to find the now hidden Cow tuts. An example being , Dan Ebbert’s “The World’s Greatest Cameraman”. I challenge you to find it the new way.

And Serendipity is dead.

That said, I love the cow…

I just miss those days of galloping through the Field of Tuts and discovering a wildflower when you least expected it. Or alas, your favorite wildflower has withered and is gone.

[Mike Clasby]

Here, here!

Gone are the “good old days”.

I too can’t find many of those oldies but goodies. I have to end up Googling many different ways to find the now hidden Cow tuts. An example being , Dan Ebbert’s “The World’s Greatest Cameraman”. I challenge you to find it the new way.

And Serendipity is dead.

That said, I love the cow…

I just miss those days of galloping through the Field of Tuts and discovering a wildflower when you least expected it. Or alas, your favorite wildflower has withered and is gone.

[Mike Clasby]

Import the map.ai file into AE.

Put the map.ai file into a new Comp (Comp size depends on how you’re going to view it: TV, computer downlaod, the internet?).

Since it’s an ai vector file you can do what you want just by Scaling the layer. Select the map layer, hit the “S” key.

Now set a keyframe for Scale by clicking the stop watch. A keyframe should appear in the timeline.

Also, click on the “Continuously Rasterize icon in the timeline window (looks kind of like a little sun), this will keep the vectors sharp when you scale them up.

If by progressive zooming you mean oone continuous zoom, go down the timeline to where you want the zoom to end, then change the scale of the layer, making a new keyframe.

Ctrl M will bring up the render Que, Select an AVI codec and you’re done.

If this are a real beginner and still lost, try this from the Editor’s Guild, it’s a very good place to start,”Part 2 – Basic Animation” here:

https://www.editorsguild.com/AfterEffects.html

Adios, buena suerte. (I hope this means “Good Luck”, highschool spanish was a long time ago).

[Mike Clasby]

In AI. Creat path/mask, Copy it.

In AE. Creat a new Soild Layer (Ctrl Y). Paste into the solid layer.
You should have a mask in that solid layer the same as it was in AI.

If you have a problem, try tis from an earlier reply to a similar question:

If you go to prefereneces==>File Handling and Clipboard then check AICB. This should allow you to copy and paste a path from Illustrator CS into AE 6.5

[Mike Clasby]

You’re right, AE doesn’t have the Continuously Rasterize Button, available for the swf layer in the timeline window. Hmmm.

Guess you’ll have to go back to Flash and output it larger.

Or, if you don’t have the original fla, you could click the swf, opening the Flash Player, and View>Full Screen (Ctrl F), to get a full screen viewing of the swf, then do a screen capture with someting like Camtasia Studio. It wouldn’t be a vector then either, but it would be bigger and sharp.

There must be a better way.

[Mike Clasby]

You’re in luck. Do a little Illustrator art, AE and a little expression.

This is another oldie but goodie from Rick Gerard (Come home, Rick, come home)This comes with an aep:

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=99107587355058&forumid=2&highlight=wheat&archive=_2001|7|6

If that link doesn’t work, do an advanced search for “wheat” with “Gerard” as author, 2001.

[Mike Clasby]

You’re in luck. Do a little Illustrator art, AE and a little expression.

This is another oldie but goodie from Rick Gerard (Come home, Rick, come home)This comes with an aep:

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=99107587355058&forumid=2&highlight=wheat&archive=_2001|7|6

If that link doesn’t work, do an advanced search for “wheat” with “Gerard” as author, 2001.

[Mike Clasby]

I think this “Keep motion in perspective”, from Adobe, is what you want (You put your on graphic on a moving sign):

https://studio.adobe.com/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100241&xml=aft65cornerpin

If the link doesn’t work, its because you have to register with abobe, so start at this page,
and put “After Effects” from the first drop down.
“Keep motion in perspective” is on page 4. Lots of good tuts there.

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/main.jsp

[Mike Clasby]

Could you just dup the layer with the mask, resize that dupped layer reversing the earlier scale transformation, then copy the mask shape, and paste in into the layer you want (then trash the dupped layer)?

[Mike Clasby]

Use “ayato 49” in Search Post (left green column ) and you’ll get lots of good help.