Convert Paintbrush Path to Pen Path?

Question

Is it possible to convert a Paintbrush path to a Pen path easily? The brush size messes with the stroke when being brought into After Effects.

Basically, I work with an Illustrator who only uses the Paintbrush tool for everything, which would be fine if it was staying in Illustartor. But I'm bringing these images into After Effects and AE ignores the brush stroke size. If I convert these layers to AE shapes natively it creates shape paths around all the strokes as if you 'Expanded Appearance' in Illustrator.

So, I use Overlord which keeps it a stroke path. But it ignores the brush size and only uses the stroke weight. So in AI there's a path with a brush stroke of 3 and a stroke weight of 3 gets converted to a thinner stroke of just 3 in AE, when it should be a thickness of 9.

So, is there anyway to easily convert the brushpen paths to pen paths, without selecting them all changing the Brush Definition to basic and increasing the stroke weight to 9?

Monika Gause · Answer

Easiest would be to instruct this designer to use the pencil tool instead of the brush. But that could be a hard job as many threads in this forum suggest.

Are all the strokes the same color or at least just few colors: use graphic styles. Other than that: a script perhaps.

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