After Effects rasterize ai file

I'm working in After Effects, and I imported a ai file in compositions, because I need to animate the layers.
The problem is that the vector turn into rasterize image appearance.
And I've tried to activate the continuously rasterize button, but doesn't work.
Solutions please.

Hi Anabela,
No worries at all, it's why we're here to help with such things. As the guys above mentioned, if you have a layer imported from AI and turn on the Continuous Rasterisation button in the switches column, AE will render that layer as sharp as the original file, no matter how big you scale the layer inside AE. So if you select the layer, hit S for scale and change the value to 1000%, the edges will still look sharp. However, if you then zoom in on the composition window as a whole — the same as you would in Photoshop to zoom in on the file and get a closer look at the artwork — then this will always "appear" pixelated as (like Photoshop) the end result of an AE comp is always pixels, for video. The only important factor is when the comp window is viewed at 100% actual size, your edges of your scaled AI layer remain sharp, and that's the purpose of the CR button (until you get into nested 3D compositions, then it has a whole extra functionality).
I hope this helps clarify any confusion you might be having? Happy to help if you have any more questions.
Steve
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