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mikaelo31537811
mikaelo31537811
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March 16, 2018
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Animate a inDesign layout

  • March 16, 2018
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What is the best way to animate a design I have made in indesign? After Effects doesn't seem to let me import a indesign-file into after effects.

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    ADG-GFX
    Participant
    April 1, 2021

    Not sure if this will help you but I came across your thread when looking up how to try and do this. I loaded in the base image file into AE and locked the layer. I then made a text box and proceeded to copy the text from ID into that text box. Now you will need to create separate text boxes for all of the text blocks but you will be able to animate them. Hope that helps. A bit time consuming but will work. Also, if the copy changes, you can just copy and paste the new copy and it will still have all of the animations on it.

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      jacklyna75855153
      Participant
      February 3, 2022

      I am also searching for a good answer to the question posed in the thread above. It seems recreating the design natively in AE with the design links from an ID package may be the way to go, although perhaps time consuming. 😞

      paragonmedia
      paragonmedia
      Inspiring
      March 2, 2021

      Hi

      I just started using AE and wanted to put an InDesign file in. Definitely the easiest way is to export as suitable image file. Then later edits to the InDesign file can be re-exported and the previous image overwritten.

      As a novice that's what I've found

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        strong_hope5FC9
        Participant
        March 23, 2021

        Thanks!! I'm using this right now. Newbie design student, decided at the last minute to animate my project. You saved me a headache. 

        Mylenium
        Mylenium
        Legend
        March 16, 2018

        There's nothing to animate. They are completely different things. At best you could export a PDF from ID, open it in Illustrator, hoping that somehow magically objects will come in separate plus you find ways to separate the rest in AI int osomething usable, then import the AI file into AE. everything else will require to rebuild stuff natively in AE because in the end what you attempt to do is a rubbish workflow to begin with - if you always planned to animate this, you essentially have wasted your time be even involving ID.

        Mylenium

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          erikb3755028
          Participant
          December 7, 2018

          What about when graphic designers design print material for years in ID and then the company hires a motion graphics artist who wants to animate those files?

          Adobe could create a better workflow.

          Your a**hole answer isn't helping anyone. Maybe just don't comment if you aren't going to be any help.

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            Melody Fitzgerald
            Participant
            July 20, 2019

            This is exactly the position I'm in now. The whole design teams makes everything in InDesign and I'm struggling to find an efficient workflow to animate their designs but I haven't found a good solution yet. I've been using exported pngs with masked elements for now but this obviously creates a lot of bloat on the server and is generally annoying to update.

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