Illustrator Layer Support

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Illustrator Layer Support

i'm an illustrator novice and a motion moron so this is most likely a rather simple query. beyond ampede's layerlink, is there any way to retain illustrator layers in motion? i have been rasterizing in photoshop which obviously retains layers but i'm doing some things where i'd prefer the graphics to stay in their vector states. thanks!

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Posted on Feb 26, 2006 10:42 AM

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Matthew Thomas4

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Feb 26, 2006 3:24 PM in response to Zebulun

I don't know how to help you with the Illustrator layers, but you could always build the Photo layered version at a higher resolution to retain detail during scaling.

I haven't tried this, but you might be able to get an SWF (Flash) file to work in Motion. Have you ever tried Illustrator's SWF export? I have no idea if layers would be preserved but it might be worth a try.

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Feb 26, 2006 6:09 PM in response to Zebulun

Heya,

Unfortunately, Illustrator layers aren't supported, so you'll end up with a merged version of the file (though still vectorized, so scalable).

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Zebulun Author

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Feb 27, 2006 6:38 AM in response to Zebulun

thanks for the confimation, guys. nice to know i can point myself in the right direction sometimes.

zeb

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