# Editing Illustrator Files Within Ae
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/editing-illustrator-files-within-ae/8761
**Category:** Compositing
**Tags:** after-effects
**Created:** [May 22, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/editing-illustrator-files-within-ae/8761 "2006-05-22T18:22:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@dobieag01](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/dobieag01)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/editing-illustrator-files-within-ae/8761/1 "2006-05-22T18:22:42Z")
Is there a way to edit/animate the actual verticies of an illustrator vector object import into after effects?
Searched all over and i think someone once told me there was a way but so far I haven't found any.
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### Author:  [@drblacksnake](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/drblacksnake)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/editing-illustrator-files-within-ae/8761/2 "2006-05-23T16:58:59Z")
afaik only if You import them as masks, then You can animate cp's.