# Layered flash into AE (or illustrator)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/layered-flash-into-ae-or-illustrator/280839
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**Created:** [February 2, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/layered-flash-into-ae-or-illustrator/280839 "2009-02-02T01:01:48Z")
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### Author: ![mdharman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@mdharman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdharman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/layered-flash-into-ae-or-illustrator/280839/1 "2009-02-02T01:01:48Z")

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I would like to take a character built in Flash into After Effects. It is split into many separate layers - rightUpperArm, rightLowerArm, rightHand, etc. After Effects will take a swf file but flatten it and rasterize it. I can save it out of Flash as an AI file but it flattens it. I guess I could take it into Illustrator, break it into layers in Illustrator, then send it to AE but that is sure a lot of steps. Illustrator also wants to make it CMYK which kills the colors. I don’t care that much about the rasterization. I could go into PhotoShop but would still have to break it into layers in PS. Anyone have help? Is there a plugin that might fix my problem? Thanks.