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February 28, 2019
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Photoshop Extrude Effect in AE?

  • February 28, 2019
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Hey you guys,

I'm relatively new to AE and was wondering if there was a way to get the Photoshop Extrude effect for videos in After Effects. My google searches have only given me tutorial on how to 3D Extrude single objects, not give the wished for effect. Since I'm new I can't figure out a way to combine two effects to reach the wanted result by myself. Can anybody help me?

Thank you so much in advance and have a great day everyone!

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Participant
July 24, 2019

I have been trying work this out for a while, and it should be easier than this, but it appears you need to create vector layers in Illustrator then import the .ai file. This Youtube tutorial should help. Remember Ray-trace mentioned in the video is now superseded by Cinema 4D.

Make your 2D logo 3D - After Effects Tutorial - YouTube

Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 1, 2019

Just to be sure, you're talking about Filter > Stylize > Extrude... in Photoshop, correct?

I think it's safe to say that there's no After Effects Effect that matches that Photoshop Filter and sadly the days of being able to load Photoshop Filters in After Effects went away when PS adopted the Filter Gallery.  (Once upon a magical time it was possible to load the PS Filters in AE and they appeared with "PS+" in the AE Effects pulldown menu.)

You can export an Image Sequence from AE and then run a PS Batch Action on them, applying PS Extrude at the desired settings.  You could opt to go with a PSD Image Sequence and take advantage of being able to have layers.  Your action could make a duplicate layer and then apply Extrude to the duplicate and then save.  The merged result will be viewed in AE.

You can also render a high resolution video from AE and open that in PS (it'll load as a Layer in a Video Group), apply the Filter and then use File > Export > Render Video to render a file that you can bring back into AE.   Exporting video from PS is clunky at best., so this might be better for short movies (just a few seconds in duration).  Also, be sure to convert the Video Layer to a Smart Object so that you don't have to apply the Filter one frame at a time.

-Warren

Community Expert
March 1, 2019

You can import an extruded layer but it will be 2D.

There are other ways to extrude things in AE. Shape layers and text layers and cameras and lights can be exported to a cinema 4D file and extruded in C4D lite, or you can enable C4D rendering and extrude shape layers or text and bend other layers, but there is no way to animate or use the extrusion created in Photoshop directly in After Effects.