From the course: After Effects Guru: Working with Vectors
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Optimizing Illustrator files for After Effects
From the course: After Effects Guru: Working with Vectors
Optimizing Illustrator files for After Effects
The exchange of information between Illustrator and After Effects is often quite seamless. There are only a few little gotchas that you need to be aware of to fully understand how things move back and forth. Let's start by actually going to the Chapter Three folder. In there, I want to start with the 03_01_Start_Map_Path.ai file. So let's double-click on that file and open it up. In here, you should recognize this path that we created earlier in the course. I want to actually make these points a little bit larger. So let's start by just selecting our path. If you don't have your Selection Tool selected, make sure it's selected in your Tool panel and just select anywhere along the path. Now, go to the Stroke options, and let's change the stroke weight up to four points. That way we can more easily see this dot, dash pattern that we've created. Now, open up your Layers panel, and I want you to notice we have one layer. Now, I want to create a duplicate of this path, so let's go ahead…
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