Return-Path: Received: from p3plsmtpa01-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([72.167.82.86] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 4564552 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:21:25 +0100 Received: (qmail 6161 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2011 20:27:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (173.247.4.230) by p3plsmtpa01-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.86) with ESMTP; 15 Dec 2011 20:27:28 -0000 Message-ID: <4EEA5842.3020601@delrazor.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:27:46 -0500 From: Greg Balint Organization: delRAZOR User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] retain AI layer sizes when file only has one layer? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not sure, but as a workaround, can you just import it as a layered doc, and choose that layer only? this is how I always do it.. or, create a blank layer below the one you need in AI, and then import just the layer you need? ///Greg Balint //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer /321.514.4839 delRAZOR.com/ On 12/15/2011 2:15 PM, scott.aelist wrote: > I've been saving my AI artwork layers as separate documents (to avoid > this annoying disappearing layer bug), but I want AE to crop the layer > to its bounding box (not the artboard). I cannot find a way to do this > when the AI document only has one layer. Is this possible?