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creating shape layers from stroke is not working properly

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
December 1, 2022
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Hello,

I just finished learning how to create continuous loop Simple Squiggling Line in AE from YouTube. The tutor did that on a simple stroke. I felt so good after finishing that I want to try on something new. I imagined creating one comet-like wave..

I went to AI. Take a stoke and apply grain brush on that.

I bring back that on AE. But I want to make a shape layer and guess what!

I get a shape layer of 600+ group and my system hanged!

Why does this happen?

Stroke is stroke. Right? If he can pull that on a single stroke why can’t I do that on a grained stroke?

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thepixelsmith

Community Expert

You used a brush in AI.

AE does not have an equivalent feature to Illustrator brushes so when you try to convert an imported vector layer into a live AE shape layer you get the broken apart paths each listed as a separate group. It is the equivalent of using the expand or expand appearance command in Illustrator to break apart a generated graphic.

Not all Illustrator features are compatible with being converted to AE shape layers.

This is a post that talks about the problems of AI to AE shape layers: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/preserving-illustrator-settings-after-converting-to-layers-to-shapes-on-ae-import/td-p/10907872

S_ AAuthor

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Thank you so much.

Mylenium

Legend

Art brushes in Illustrator generate pixel data. Hence there is no vector data to convert.

Mylenium

thepixelsmith

Community Expert

No they don't.

Art brushes in illustrator when made from vector graphics will remain vectors based when imported into AE and when converted to AE shape layers.

S_ AAuthor

Inspiring

I just finished learning how to create continuous loop Simple Squiggling Line in AE from YouTube. The tutor did that on a simple stroke. I felt so good after finishing that I want to try on something new. I imagined creating one comet-like wave..

I went to AI. Take a stoke and apply grain brush on that.

I bring back that on AE. But I want to make a shape layer and guess what!

I get a shape layer of 600+ group and my system hanged!

Why does this happen?

Stroke is stroke. Right? If he can pull that on a single stroke why can’t I do that on a grained stroke?

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