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Import artwork into After Effects

Import artwork into After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

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Import artwork into After Effects

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- [Instructor] So let's look at the work flow for importing Sketch artwork into After Effects. If you haven't already done so, what I would like you to do is come over to "Window" and choose "Sketch2AE" and then make sure that it's in your interface like so. It may come in undocked, like this. So simply just drag it over till you see it snap into place. And then you can just adjust the interface as needed. So we've got two options here. We can paste the layer data from the clipboard, and we can open layer data from a "SketchAE" file. In the previous movie, we saved a "SketchAE" file and so let's use that information. If you click this, it's going to say, "You got to select a comp first." And choose "Okay." Now, we don't have any compositions in our project file yet. What we can do is get the script to actually create a new comp for us. It will also tell us what size multiplier we want to use, and, as we've used a pretty large size already, I'm going to drop this down to one X. So, now…

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