Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #54942
From: Robert Birnholz <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Illustrator layers reduced to 1x1 pixel
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:16:35 -0400
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Discovered and fixed the problem.

Somehow I added a second artboard to my Illustrator file-- and multiple artboards is a bad thing, at least as far as AE is concerned. Deleted the second artboard, saved, and everything came back as it should.

Whew.


Rob Birnholz
ABSOLUTE MOTION GRAPHICS, Inc.
-digital media creation-
Longwood, Florida
407.830.8856
www.absolutemotiongraphics.com
Author of Pro Training for the After Effects Camera http://tinyurl.com/d23qcw7






On Aug 28, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Robert Birnholz <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

> Working all day on a comp comprised of nearly all Illustrator layers.
>
> Made a slight tweak to one of those layers in Illiustrator (turned off the visibility of part of a grouped layer). When I returned to AE, every element from that Illustrator file (my entire comp) was suddenly a 1x1 pixel object.
>
> I undid the switch in AI, but that didn't fix anything. Even my previous saved versions of the project appear hosed, so something happened in AI.
>
> (I just tried creating a new project, but I get the same problem-- all the layers in the AI file come into AE as only 1x1 pixel.
>
> Anyone run into this before?
>
> Anyone know a fix?
>
>
> Rob Birnholz
> ABSOLUTE MOTION GRAPHICS, Inc.
> -digital design and post-
> Longwood, Florida
> www.absolutemotiongraphics.com
>
> "Give me ambiguity, or give me something else"
>
>
>
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