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April 10, 2019
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Importing Adobe animate to After effects: Keyframes not showing up on AE timeline

  • April 10, 2019
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Hi there!

Im a newbie to After effects. Now the issue i am having is that i have imported a FLA which has simple animation ( motion tweens) in it.

Im able to import the file successfully to After Effects.

So i can view it there etc. The only thing is that why does it not show up in the timeline player. So its empty.

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See attached screenshot https://www.dropbox.com/s/k8w219s0pyjiic7/Screenshot%202019-04-10%20at%2010.17.16.png?dl=0

I have watched some tutorials for example like this one Integration of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects with Animate

where when a fla is imported to AE it indeed appears on the timeline. So you can see keyframes.

Could anyone explain why maybe this is happening. I appreciate your help. THANK YOU!

Christian

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    Correct answer Warren Heaton

    Many thanks Martin for your comments.

    I guess an issue we are having is that when you export out of animate directly the file size is just too high.

    The idea behind the AE and exporting Json files etc is to get really low kb files. Unfortunately I don't know AE at all. Might have to start learning.


    Your screen shot looks correct.

    1. There's your Layer Stack based on SWF source that was converted from your Layers in your FLA.

    2. There's the Layer Time Span of each layer.

    Unfortunately, the plug-in that converts FLA to a Comp doesn't trim the Layer Time Span to match when Cells in the FLA actually have content in the frame, leaving you to scrub the Timeline to determine when you're not over what were empty Frames in the FLA.

    When working in AE with Comps from FLAs, I find it helpful to keep Animate open and to option click the blue Time Display in the AE Timeline so that it favors frame count over timecode.  I can then quickly reference the Current Frame in the FLA Scene and then go to that frame in AE easily.  (Side note:  AE defaults to starting at 0 while Animate defaults to starting at 1.  You can change the AE Comp Settings so that it starts at 1 for a better match.)  I usually take the time to manually trim the AE Layer Time Span to best match the FLA Layers.

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    Martin_Ritter
    Martin_Ritter
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    April 10, 2019

    The keyframes from the example are made within AE. They are from AE effects. From the video, it doesn't look like you have access to the tween animation in AE. It is imported as footage, like a pre-rendered movie clip.

    *Martin

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    christianc82963968Author
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    April 10, 2019

    Hey Martin. Thanks for comments. This is incorrect. This video is being done within Animate

    Integration of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects with Animate So its the

    Animate and After Effects workflow

    For whatever reason I am unable to achieve the same kind of thing. I even tried a basic keyframe animation in Animate because i thought maybe motion tweens are the culprit but that didnt work either. So its important that the file remain as vector.

    Martin_Ritter
    Martin_Ritter
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    April 10, 2019

    In the video, he create the dancer animation in Animate, import this into AE, opens the comp created during AE import and adds effects to the layers.

    At what step are you hanging?

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