: Animation of entire project in Illustrator Is there a way to make an animation of an entire Illustrator project from start to finish? I don't want to screen capture movie (as if it were

@Gail6891361

An alternate method for recording what you did is to: Mine the Undo. By making a exceptionally large undo you should be able to fit quite a long sequence to actions in the undo. The caveat is that the entire work has to be done in one go or expand every time you quit.

One can edit the AIPrefs to set the undo levels higher than default 200 by editing the variables:

/undoDepth 5
/maxUndoDepth 200


If you need more then 200 steps. Then just make a script that emits file save and undo for your scene. Obviously it wont record mistakes done by undo, this might be good or bad. As a bonus you can export vector versions of the progress.

This is quite light on your operation and you can get as big animations as you like even if you screen wouldn't support so big images and does not use up real estate when you work.

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@Michele215

To get a static view of your project without any zooming, you can just create a new window for it and use screen capture software to record that window. With your project open, just use Window > New Window and make it whatever size or position needed (you can drag it to a different monitor outside of Illustrator too).

The caveat with this is that some of your actions won't be as "live" as others. For instance, drawing a shape will be live, drawing a brush stroke will not.

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