AE keeps importing the same file.

[HeroicHandle]

Hello,

I've lately been importing Illustrator files into After Effects for animation. I've been running into an issue where I'll upload one file, and then every file I upload afterwards is that same first file. Sometimes saving the file in a different folder, or drastically changing its name helps.

I've reinstalled AE/restarted my computer. This has been a problem for a few weeks.

Thanks for any help!

Deric

[Tuukka24593103485m]

THIS worked for me, none of the others didn't.

[Longish]

My goodness - here we are in 2023 and it is still happening.

I may have another solution - I was pulling in an Illustrator file to AE - and it was called 'ceramics' and every time I worked on the file I would output it to ceramics 2 ceramics 3 etc... And it wasn't showing the changes that I had done and then I noticed it was only pulling in 'ceramics' - first I thought it was missing the number off as a thing, but I saved a file as ceramics4 and it pulled it in. And guess what when I tried to pull in ceramics5 it pulled in 4...

So I copied it and now the file is 'ceramics5 - copy' and it went in fine.

So I suggest that AE is not looking closely enough to the file names certainly at the 'shape' of the file name. Change the filname shape and it may well work.

Shame Adobe don't read these places

Chris

[Jonas5E26]

Another solution is to remove all the metadata from the Illustrator JPEGs. There are some freeware tools which can do the task. Afterwards it worked for me. It's a very simple solution, since you don't need to re-save the files.

[irapuanc]

hello,

It happens when you export JPGs from Illustrator using the "Export for screens" feature. All images exported output as the same. When you export PNGs, it doesn't help. 

Adobe screws up again!

[Jonas5E26]

Remove the metadata from the JPGs with an external tool. This helped in my case.

[goodrobot]

It's 2021 and this problem still persists - cannot import JPEGS exported from Illustrator into After Effects. They import as duplicates of the first frame.

In the latest release of AI and AE, however, PNG's seem to work for me. 

[Jorge5E52]

This still happenning i am importing form illustrator as compostition and keep importing me as some previuos sequencial ai file name

[Jorge5E52]

As previuos mentioned it work finw with the drag to ae mechanism, but is houl be fixed by this time

[Ruairi5FA4]

August 2021 and I am getting the same problem from images 'exported for screens' from Illustrator.  I have 8 different jpegs, and they all raster as image 6 in AE.