Complicated path hanging machine on copy and paste.

[Dominic Witherow]

I have a shape path with several hundred anchor points and I need to paste it as an animation path into the position parameter of another layer. Normally, this is straightforward. However, this time I just get beachballing. Could it be that my path is too much for the system to cope with? I copied it across from Illustrator in an instant, so i do wonder if it's something to do with the position parameter?

My computer is a brand new MacBook Pro 16", 64GB RAM, 8GB GFX card, i9 8 cores, thunderbolt ssd for media and internal 2tb for cache. Running latest OSX and latest AE. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dominic 

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

I would simplify the path in Illustrator. I don't remember the limit on the number of points that can be copied but there is one. It's pretty easy to reduce the number of points in AI and still match the path pretty accurately.

[Dominic Witherow]

Thanks, Rick. As an occasional Illustrator user I wasn't aware of that wonderful automation! It has helped considerably, though I am still left with fiendishly complicated paths, so am having to use multiple comps to make it work. Very useful knowledge, though! D