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Firewood:D
Inspiring
January 14, 2025
Question

The file copied from Illustrator to animate will be particularly stuck when opened again

  • January 14, 2025
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The vector characters and scenes used to make animations are drawn in Illustrator, but the files made with these materials are abnormally stuck when opened again. This is a problem that has troubled me for a long time. Does anyone know the cause of this problem?
When making character animations in an, everything is normal, but after the production is completed, opening the file again is very slow, which makes people anxious.
Checking the file, it is found that these materials from Illustrator always have many groups of internal nested symbols, many empty symbols, and these files have no filter effects.
For example, it often takes more than a minute to open a 17M fla file, which is unacceptable.

The system is win11, and it has nothing to do with the software version. I opened it on 21/22 and it was the same。

But if I break up and regroup these Illustrator assets, especially removing the nested symbols within the group, the situation will improve somewhat, but it is obviously not suitable for manual adjustment one by one.

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    Firewood:D
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2025

    You are right. The root of the problem lies in Illustrator. I checked the file layers in Illustrator. The nesting depth of scenes and characters has reached an incredible level. If svg is used to exchange data, all elements will be piled together, making it difficult to select the desired part.

    Well, after all, Illustrator materials are drawn by professional artists. At present, it seems that all I can do is to reduce the length of each animation file as much as possible, so as to reduce the waiting time.