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Using Illustrator with After Effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Using Illustrator with After Effects
If you do motion graphics work, another essential tool is Adobe Illustrator. We've been using Illustrator files throughout this training series. And as we have talked about, when you import Illustrator files, you could also import them as a composition as well. So, there is a lot that carries over. Another feature that we haven't really touched on too much is the fact that Illustrator files can be scaled up above 100%. They could be resize without any loss in quality and that relationship, that ability, carries over when you import Illustrator files into After Effects. So, I have this little knight guy here and if I take his scale above 100%, really, really huge, we can start to see some degradation here, and that's going to happen on any layer that you have. But if it's an Illustrator file, then you can go to this layer, and there is a column here in the Switches area of the Timeline panel that says Continuously Rasterize. If we check this, it will access the Illustrator file and it…
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Contents
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After Effects workflow overview2m 18s
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Bringing elements into After Effects2m 23s
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Adding elements to the Timeline1m 57s
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Working with layers3m 45s
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Creating animation with presets3m 24s
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Applying effects3m 34s
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Creating animation without presets5m 38s
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Previewing your work2m 46s
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Exporting content as a movie file2m 29s
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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Understanding spatial interpolation2m 5s
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Creating and adjusting motion paths3m 55s
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Orienting moving objects along a path1m 29s
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Drawing motion with Motion Sketch2m 51s
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Creating pauses in animation3m 6s
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Understanding temporal interpolation1m 56s
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Easing keyframes5m 57s
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About the Graph Editor4m 25s
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