Convert illustrator text layer to live text layers

By God if they fully kill the only useful app for bringing live text into After Effects I am going to lose my mind. I am just beyond disgusted with Adobe and how they treat their customers who learn/integrate their apps only to have the rug yanked out one more time because of their sloppy, failed attempt to monopolize. This is how I felt when they destroyed Macromedia's wonderful apps years ago. They're getting close to Google levels of app graveyard.

With the XD gone and the cumbersome workaround Illustrator > Photoshop > After Effects can we please have this feature prioritized?

Good to know. So far so good on this end, although this recent project only had short titles, so everything translated surprisingly well. My main client designs and storyboards in Illustrator, where I have to break out upwards of 30-100 individual frames and then copy/paste all that text into After Effects as OverLord doesn't do what I need. Albeit a hack, the XD one takes a few less clicks than doing the Photoshop method and saved me SO. MUCH. TIME. Now if only we could get the Adobe team to take this request seriously for those users who have to predominantly animate Illustrator vector art.

@jackthegiantkiller 

Before anyone gets too excited about Illustrator text objects being converted to After Effects text layers by sending artboards from Adobe XD to After Effects, line spacing may not be maintained if the text object has multiple lines.  Once in After Effects, leading may need to be reset to match Illustrator.

I'd still export to PSD with text set to editable as an interim step if this happens. 

In case anyone didn't see Rick Gerard's workaround posted here a while ago: editable-text-from-illustrator-to-after-effects/ you can import your Illustrator file into XD, then export as After Effects and the text is converted to editable text. Lord I wish I had seen this when it was first posted, as I've wasted countless hours copying and pasting text back and forth. After Effects Team, if XD can freaking do it, WHY NOT AFTER EFFECTS!? We have been asking for this for over a decade, and without any fanfare you add this functionality to XD? What is wrong with this picture?

I cannot express how much time I waste copying and pasting text in and out of Illustrator into After Effects. Please address this soon?

But I agree that interoperability should indeed be continue to be one of the key points of our workflow, and I hope that the engineering teams at Adobe will provide all the bricks necessary for Overlord to become a UXP plugin, in order to work natively on Apple Silicon. An Acqui-Hire would help...

Hi, all, I hope that I'm not beating a dead horse, but I wanted to point out that Text in Photoshop is a vector asset, within a container made for pixels and vectors, and can print beautifully on a postscript printer.

I do hear you. I make my living off Adobe programs, and have most of my adult life. Ultimately I am very grateful for Adobe and their tools which changed my life, and I want to express this here as I feel my complaints overshadow everything else. I honestly do not like biting the hand that feeds me. I am also self-taught, experimented with the early version of AE in college, then while making my living off graphic design began doing titles and terrible fx for indie shorts and such until I 'graduated' into NYC animation studios where I moved more into C4D/Xparticles. I mention all this basically to say that I've been around the block a few times and I've seen the best and worst of Adobe.

The two-year issue was specific to the 2015 Retina 5K iMacs and the team was well aware of it. Apple did not help things either by making this terribly fussy machine, now retired thankfully. And yes, I mentioned a concern that there wasn't any communication, because there was virtually none in the very forums that we were directed to voice our concerns and vote on feature ideas. You only have to scroll through a few of them and the various frustrated user comments to realize this. I repeatedly made the point of showing how the Premiere team was able to at least mark ideas as being considered or in progress on their own Uservoice, but we did not get the same service. Adobe has admitted this and I am hoping they make good on their promises, I'm honestly very impressed with all their latest strides.

Similar to you, I've been using After Effects daily since Cosa After Effects 1.5.  While there have been various bugs and issues, I don't recall a two-year period where it didn't work on iMacs.  Pre-subscription plans, I usually updated every other major release and only to .1 or .5 versions avoiding .0 releases. (I thank Trish Meyer for that advice.)

The blog is just one of many ways to hear from the After Effects team.  Of course it's not a bug report forum, but didn't you mention a concern that there wasn't any communication?  As I am sure you're aware, NAB, Adobe MAX, and user groups are also great opportunities to get some time with the various Adobe teams.