Dimensions (width) of .ai file reduced when importing to AE

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October 11, 2021
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I created an illustration in AI with the dimensions 15360x8460 (=4*4K).
To do animations, I save it as an .ai file and import it into After Effects.
For some reason, the dimensions of the .ai file in After Effects turn to 14400x8640, aka the width is reduced.
This doesn't happen when I import the illustration as .eps instead of .ai, why is that?
However, I'd like to use the .ai file in After Effects.
What do I have to do so that the dimensions don't get cut?

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Mylenium

Legend

AE does not support the oversize canvas in AE introduced last year since it's just math trickery under the hood and that likely explains it. The values you reported sound very much like the maximum for conventional AI documents and that pretty much sums it up. If you need to go bigger, you need to work with multiple files/ artboards or use otehr formats as you already found out.

Mylenium

Meng Zhiqun

Inspiring

The way vector files work, is that you can toggle continuous rasterise in ae for that ai layer, which means that you can scale up endlessly in ae and it wouldn't get pixilated. Do u really need ur artwork to be this huge?