How To Update Illustrator File In After Effects

Do you folks have whatsoever tricks for this?

Here'due south my current process. Maybe information technology's already as streamlined as it can be, but I thought I would enquire in case this could be faster. So here goes:

example:you accept an illustrator file with 5 layers. Import that into after effects as a limerick so you tin animate each ane as a different object, and your on your mode.
Now, someone says "hey, I updated that file so you'll need these other 4 layers added"

No problem. I'll just add that to my AE saved version of the illustrator file (it's in RGB instead of the CMYK most people seem to employ) and I head dorsum to AE. But they are different objects, so information technology doesn't update. It would only take updated pieces if I changed the existing layers that information technology imported.

here's the meat of the process if you're impatient
So I just import the file right over again as a new limerick with new layers.
Now I copy the 4 new layers
paste them into the comp that I'm using
go back and delete the comp that I just created
Find the 4 added layers and move them into the folder in the project carte du jour (if you lot don't exercise this step things get messy)
then I'1000 on my way.

Then. I'thousand looking to run into if there is a more efficient way of getting those in. Plus, this process is a little easy to accidentally grab the wrong files. You tin can come across if they are used or not, which helps. After you lot delete the newly imported file you can just bear witness unused vector art. Bold you don't accept indistinguishable names for art that isn't in the same composition that Should be pretty like shooting fish in a barrel. But if you lot have a big project, particularly if you got it passed off from someone else *gasp* then information technology Could be messy.

Let me know what you folks think. I wish they would merely take an Add together characteristic, perhaps I'thousand simply missing information technology.