Animate a inDesign layout

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March 16, 2018
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What is the best way to animate a design I have made in indesign? After Effects doesn't seem to let me import a indesign-file into after effects.

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ADG-GFX

Participant

Not sure if this will help you but I came across your thread when looking up how to try and do this. I loaded in the base image file into AE and locked the layer. I then made a text box and proceeded to copy the text from ID into that text box. Now you will need to create separate text boxes for all of the text blocks but you will be able to animate them. Hope that helps. A bit time consuming but will work. Also, if the copy changes, you can just copy and paste the new copy and it will still have all of the animations on it.

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jacklyna75855153

Participant

I am also searching for a good answer to the question posed in the thread above. It seems recreating the design natively in AE with the design links from an ID package may be the way to go, although perhaps time consuming. 😞

paragonmedia

Inspiring

Hi

I just started using AE and wanted to put an InDesign file in. Definitely the easiest way is to export as suitable image file. Then later edits to the InDesign file can be re-exported and the previous image overwritten.

As a novice that's what I've found

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strong_hope5FC9

Participant

Thanks!! I'm using this right now. Newbie design student, decided at the last minute to animate my project. You saved me a headache.

Mylenium

Legend

There's nothing to animate. They are completely different things. At best you could export a PDF from ID, open it in Illustrator, hoping that somehow magically objects will come in separate plus you find ways to separate the rest in AI int osomething usable, then import the AI file into AE. everything else will require to rebuild stuff natively in AE because in the end what you attempt to do is a rubbish workflow to begin with - if you always planned to animate this, you essentially have wasted your time be even involving ID.

Mylenium

mikaelo31537811Author

Participant

I often create posters for both print and to show on tv-screens or turn into facebook covers. They include ai-illustrations, vector shapes created directly in indesign, photos and text. Solutions I have tried so far is to save as eps and open in illustrator or just copy everything into illustrator. It works, but with some complications, I just wondered if there is a better/easier solution. Does anyone else have a better solution?