I have a reasonably elaborate (to me) Adobe Illustrator drawing which is at present composed of 73 layers. I am wanting to use this illustration in an educational film I am making using Sony Vegas as my video editor. My intention is to bring in various layers at a time, as the point they illustrate is addressed.
I do not want the lines in the illustration to end up jaggidy but crisp like they are in AI.
I've been playing around a bit with exporting visible layers from AI as .png files. This works, but if I zoom in on sections in Vegas as I was intending, the resolution isn't great. (Maybe I won't zoom in but rather introduce the new illustrated point as a large item superimposed over the full illustration, and then zoom out from it and move it to its finished place in the overall illustration when it is finished being addressed.)
Transparency needs to be maintained throughout the process.
One thing I have discovered with the exported .png files is that they seem to export to a size determined by the artwork rather than as I want them to be, on a transparent 'artboard/page' at 16:9 ratio. This means that if I zoom in on the illustration on the Vegas time line, the illustration gets cut off at the .png border which does not fill the screen, rather than the screen border - which looks odd to say the least.
I'm still in the early days of working out a process to get the effect I want, but am wondering if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing and can make some suggestions.
I do not want the lines in the illustration to end up jaggidy but crisp like they are in AI.
I've been playing around a bit with exporting visible layers from AI as .png files. This works, but if I zoom in on sections in Vegas as I was intending, the resolution isn't great. (Maybe I won't zoom in but rather introduce the new illustrated point as a large item superimposed over the full illustration, and then zoom out from it and move it to its finished place in the overall illustration when it is finished being addressed.)
Transparency needs to be maintained throughout the process.
One thing I have discovered with the exported .png files is that they seem to export to a size determined by the artwork rather than as I want them to be, on a transparent 'artboard/page' at 16:9 ratio. This means that if I zoom in on the illustration on the Vegas time line, the illustration gets cut off at the .png border which does not fill the screen, rather than the screen border - which looks odd to say the least.
I'm still in the early days of working out a process to get the effect I want, but am wondering if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing and can make some suggestions.