From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1
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Importing files from Illustrator
From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1
Importing files from Illustrator
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll bring in an Illustrator file, after visiting Photoshop files last time. Before we do that, I'll show you the file we'll be working with inside of Illustrator. So here it is, there's this monsters M logo on its own layer. There's this sign on its own layer, the signpost, and the background, and the sign has two components on it, it has the red outer circle and a white ellipse behind that. So that's what the file's composed of, and I'll come back into AfterEffects, and let's import this, Command + I or Control + I, and we'll get the monster sign just there. Again, clicking for the options here, and I'm going to bring this in as a composition retaining the layer sizes. Remember that a footage file, that brings it in as basically flattened content. But if I bring this one in and hit open, just there, just as before, you get the composition made with the filename just there, and also all of the different bits that make up the file as individual layers…
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