TweiNa

Push your Illustrator and Photoshop layers to After Effects without the cumbersome process of importing.

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Description

The v1.2.1 update now can refresh UXP panel by dobule clicking inside the panel since sometimes the UXP panel button has no effect.
It is recommended for M1 mac users to update.

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Click this button to push your selected Photoshop layers to After Effects.

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Toggle this button to enable crop for comps that generated from layer groups.

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Toggle this button to keep your smart object's transformation in After Effects.

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Editable shapes

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And texts

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Features

  • Import arbitrary amount of layers from Photoshop to After Effects
  • Keep smart object’s transformation including position, scale and rotation
  • Auto crop imported comps to fit content
  • Photoshop Vector layer convert to After Effects shape layer
  • Photoshop text layer to After Effects editable text

Constraints

  • Smart objects will be converted to link layers, which means it will missing link if the linked file lost.
  • Deformation methods other than position, scale and rotation will make the appearance of the layer look different in PS than in AE ( perspective, liquify, warp, etc.)
  • Multiple artboards will be considered as one big comp
  • Layer masks are not editable in After Effects
  • Smart filter cannot imported
  • Root level group's clip mask and layer style can't be imported

Addiotonally, you can also push Illustrator layer to After Effects...

Please note that TweiNa imports based on layer, so multiple objects selected in the same layer will be considered as one single layer.

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Best Practices

TweiNa uses After Effects's native import mechanism, so each import will trigger After Effects to check whether the layers are updated one by one, After Effects will freeze during the update. To reduce waiting time, you can try to follow the following principles:

  • Keep your layers as few as possible
  • Convert groups into smart objects
  • Delete unused PS assets in AE
  • For different layers that are essentially the same, push one of them and reuse it after precomp in After Effects

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Version History

1.2.1 -

• Add Reload Panel button for UXP panel in the right top dropdown menu since sometimes pressing the TweiNa UXP panel button has no effect, double clicking in the UXP panel also reloads the panel

1.2 -

• Fix program error after Photoshop v24.3

1.1 -

• M1 Mac users now can use TweiNa by installing TweiNa UXP panel and TweiNa listener extension.
• Photoshop’s fill layers are no longer regarded as shape layer.
• Add After Effects panel, now you can pull layers from Photoshop and Illustrator directly in After Effects.
• UI improvement : now buttons’s highlight related to Photoshop is blue, buttons’s highlight related to Illustrator is orange.

1.0 -

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017

Illustrator

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014

Photoshop

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017