Hi,

When you import a "Large canvas size" Illustrator file to After Effects the illustrations are 10x smaller. Please fix this with an option like "Honor scale" in After Effects.

Why I want these Large canvas size Illustrator file in the first place? I create 2D explainer animations in Illustrator and animate them later in After Effects. Before the Large canvas option I was only able to create max. 15 artboards (the scenes of the animation) from 3840x2160 each in Illustrator. Now I can scale this up to more then 100 artboards, so I only need one Illustrator file in stead of a few for larger animations.

Thanks!

I posted after upgrading to 17.1.3 that every time I opened Ae, I got a list of missing plug-ins (see attached). The help guy kind of fixed it by sticking a plug-ins folder on my Desktop (which is not an elegant solution.)
I updated to 17.1.4 earlier expecting the issue to be solved but it's still happening and is now ignoring the work around as well (so back to square 1). The 'missing' plug-ins are actually there, in the correct address string, but Ae isn't recognising them for some reason.
I see from the community, I am not the only one that has faced this.

Often when working with a layer one will want to control the layer's Transform properties themselves, but then also have additional transform control for that layer independent of the layer controls. Typically one would create a new Null and parent the layer to the Null, thus giving one another set of Transform property controls higher up in the hierarchy.

This can be useful in many situations, such as having a particular anchor point of the layer itself, but then another anchor point for more fine tuned controls (e.g., a squash and stretch for a bounce).

The current method of parenting to a Null is fine, but it tends to create unnecessary layers in many instances, which clutters up the timeline.

I'd propose the ability to have mutliple Transfrom controls in a hierarchy on a single layer. Each level of hierarchy could be added for the precise amount required.

Conceptually this would function like the relation of Shapes within a Shape Layer. Each shape has its own transform properties, but then the Shape Layer has its own independent Transform controls, allowing for universal transform controls for every shape within the Shape Layer.

To be sure, this can currently be accomplished with the Transform Effect, but there are some disadvantages:

1. For vector artwork it will rasterize the artwork, which results in pixelization on the scale




2. The Transform effect controls aren't as easy to control as the Layer Transform controls.




3. The Transform Effect is based on the Comp dimensions, rather than layer.

In my proposal adding a new level of Transform properties would automatically switch to those properties. Any changes made to the layer in the Composition window would be changed on that level of hierarchy. There could be a keyboard command to switch between hierarchies, and once selected that hierarchy would become the default for any changes made until another hierarch of controls is selected. Perhaps a colored outline corresponding to the current hierarchy would help distinguish.

The guides at the moment are horrible (granted I don't use them much for most of my work but on the job I have at the moment they are proving quite critical for making accurate masks on shape layers. The three pixel width lines are truly horrible and just make them look like a blurred line. Please just revert back to standard 1 pixel width lines - that is fairly essential for accurately placing them against objects on a visual. Or, if that is an problem for retina screens (which I'm thinking may be the reason they are like they are), then please put an option in the preferences to revert back to a single pixel line.

Version 17.1.3 is no longer importing MPEG 2 Long GOP HDV 720P footage. I have older footage from a JVC GY HD250 that still opens in Premiere, but the After Effects project will no longer conform the footage. So, I open AE to check the project, to find that footage, and any MPEG 2 I try to import, will import without error, but only displays black. Brand new Wintel machine with RTX 2080 super card. Other AE projects work fine, just not ones with this footage. Any workaround? I don't even think I can re-render the footage in Media Encoder, as AE will eventually lock up when trying to handle the MPEG 2 footage.

Thanks