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PaulSimpson65
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June 18, 2020
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Import circuit diagrams from LaTeX for witeboard animation

  • June 18, 2020
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Hi,

Ok, So I am trying to produce a whiteboard animation of an electronic circuit diagram. After much searching, I've found the beast (and easiest) way to produce the diagarams is usiang LaTeX, in particular the CircuiTikz package.

My question is, how do I get this into AE as a vector so I don't have to manually trace the whole thing in order to animate it?

If I render from LaTeX to PDF, then will is arrive in AE as a Vector image, or will it be converted to a bitmap?

I'm happy do go via Illustrator, if I need to, but I need a process as I have quite a few of these to produce for an electronics tutorial series I'm working on.

Thoughts?

TIA for any and all help and advice!

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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June 18, 2020

A PDF may retain vector shapes but it depends on how the app handles the drawing. You may also have to open the PDF up in Illustrator and fix things like lines that are less than 2 pixels and separate the elements into layers for easier animation in After Effect. I would probably start there, Open the PDF in Illustrator, set the artboard to the same frame size as the final video in points or pixels, resize as necessary, fix fine lines that are less than 2 pixels wide, Snap critical layers to the pixel grid, separate elements into layers, then save as an AI file and import as a composition retaining layer size. If the software exports the drawings as vector art that would be the most efficient and professional workflow. 

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