From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for InDesign Users

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Work with InDesign in After Effects

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Work with InDesign in After Effects

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- [Instructor] After Effects will directly import Photoshop and Illustrator files and preserve many of their editable characteristics. But this isn't the case with InDesign. So how do you get started with source from InDesign? So here's a carefully laid out title frame, which we're going to turn into an animated title in After Effects. And it would be great if my editable text could make it all the way to After Effects. There are, of course, ways to export the individual layers of this InDesign. The most commonly known one is to go to Illustrator where you can paste and you have all the same layers here. And that would be seem to be a great option since After Effects can import this Illustrator file and if it were broken down into layers, which I show you how to do in the Illustrator course, then you'd be good to go. Except that Illustrator text is not editable in After Effects. So if I want to actually make an…

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