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Export to After Effects to add animation

The best animation tool... gotta communicate with AE like PS

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Shlomi shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
feature-completed  ·  AdminDan Tuhoarca (Product Manager, Adobe) responded  · 

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to announce that with version 13 you can export your designs from XD to After Effects. Layers, artboards, symbols, groups and artwork are transferred as editable and with great visual fidelity.

Here’s how it works:
1. In XD, select the layers or artboards you want to animate in After Effects.
2. Go to: File> Export > After Effects. If After Effects is not installed on your machine, this option is greyed out. You can also use the ⌥⌘F (Mac), or Ctrl+Alt+F (Windows) keyboard shortcuts.
3. The selected layers or artboards are added as native shapes, texts, assets, and nested compositions in your AE project.

Here’s the list with what’s supported and not supported at this time: https://helpx.adobe.com/ro/xd/kb/open-after-effects-files-in-xd.html

Thanks for voting this feature and let us know how it works!

Best,
Dan Tuhoarca

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  • Abhishek Das commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact that this feature is still under review is a huge setback for adobe. Even after 2 years. Its obviously a must have!

  • Jakub commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is must have. It's weird that XD as Adobe App has no integration with After Effects (but there is integration with ProtoPie)

  • ricky commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE!!!!! Look at Sketch2AE by Google

  • JT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is this still under review???

  • Vicente Losada commented  ·   ·  Report

    there are completly useful software like proto.io and protopie that make real animated apps you can try like if it was the real app. The preview let you use the prototype with the functions and the animations at the same time. With odobe you can check the function with XD and then you show how it would be with Ae, but you can not make a real high fidelity prototype where you can check all at the same time and show the app like it would be. I don't know why adobe do not have that software all together but all apart. This could be the best.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a must have. There is a plugin to integrate Sketch with AE, which saves a LOT of time. How come XD, which from adobe can´t do that.?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why Adobe is lacking this I can’t figure out...

  • Justin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Adobe: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE, DON'T BLOW IT AGAIN

    Lottie and Framer have changed the game and dusty old After Effects is suddenly cool all over again. I don't care what your votes say, THIS is your best opportunity to jump ahead. I would drop Sketch tonight for XD if it had an AE flow.

  • Andrea Gomez commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is there any other way we can get XD "layers" on to AE? What methods are you all using? I'm currently stuck.

  • Cris commented  ·   ·  Report

    YES, PLEASE! I often have to create UI animation in AE, and every time I spend ages just recreating the screens.

  • Gisella commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be a great feature! Especially, in addition to an animating in XD. Being able to export to AE would allow us to add advanced motion design concepts and continue to push the industry. I look forward to both this feature as well as being able to animate within in XD. Thanks, Adobe! Keep working hard.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    YES...if youre not going to make micro interactions in app anytime soon, at least let us get a quick and easy AFX workflow here. Everything I import into AFX looks like pixellated for some reason...would be nice to have and EPS export since AFX won't accept SVG.

  • subah commented  ·   ·  Report

    [windows version]
    For now I need to work around the problem by exporting specific object those I need in AE to be exported by selecting them from the layer menu and exporting them as I need(PNGs, Jpegs) ,So the entire artwork doesn't export with all the content in it.

  • Adam Trabold commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be *so* helpful. Having a hard time figuring out a solid workflow for our marketing team to create videos since all we can really export are PNGs...currently redrawing the specific screens to be animated in AI and using that (which is a paaaaaaaain and is definitely not sustainable long-term).

  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes agree, this feature is very much needed. To be able to bring assets back and forth from Axd2Ae, even if it's just basic shape layers animations would be very cool. Sketch already has a cool free plugin to take it's layers into AE (https://google.github.io/sketch2ae/) So this can be done Adobe.

  • VIjay commented  ·   ·  Report

    Microanimations in user interfaces is a key feature for demonstrating the interactivity.
    It needs to be integrated as a part of the XD workflow.

    Currently stuck with all designs in XD and not sure how to proceed with the animation part.

  • Colin Brandt commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is the feature that would leapfrog Sketch

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