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Thanks for the suggestion; unfortunately Copying Items as SVG was already turned on and it still wasn't pasting into After Effects. Oddly, I am able to paste such items into Illustrator! And I was always able to paste copied items from Illustrator into After Effects, as I said before. So evidently it's an After Effects thing that I haven't been able to figure out. But the above solution I figured out is more than sufficient for my needs, so it's all good!

Update: after following the directions from https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/save-affinity-designer-vector-files-after-effects I was able to do what I need to do by exporting the file out of Affinity Designer as an EPS, then converting it into a shape layer in After Effects (more detailed explanation in the link above). While it's a few extra steps than simply copying and pasting directly, it is adequate for my needs, which is great because I'd love to drop my Adobe subscription to just After Effects (no getting away from that for my work even though I use Apple Motion for a lot of that) while doing the rest of my work in the Affinity suite and Capture One for my Lightroom replacement.

This is a simple technique I use regularly to copy a path in Illustrator, then in After Effects I create a shape layer that I then paste onto so I can animate it (aka like a logo)...but while I can copy the path in Affinity Designer, After Effects doesn't paste it. Does anyone know why? And whether there is a solution or setting I can change that will enable this? This is kind of a vital feature I need in order to decouple from Illustrator. Thanks.

Yes, please! Not being able to assign a keyboard shortcut to a Macro—the way you can for Photoshop Actions—seems to be one of the missing features that still gives Photoshop the advantage between the two, at least so far as I have seen for my workflow as I've experimented with Affinity as a potential PS replacement. I personally use it to drop a watermark in with one click via the Wacom ExpressKey Remote thanks to the keyboard shortcut and that knocks out several extra clicks to locate the folder, then the subfolder, then the file, the dragging it into the document, etc etc. Would be great to do the same in Affinity (although clicking the Macro in the panel isn't the worst thing in the world, but again it's just something PS can do...).

Thanks, but that still didn't work. I do have the most current version (8.6). I did manage to install my old copy of 7.6, and it opens up fine...however it crashes every time upon saving! I sent a report to Neat Image, so we'll see what they say. So close...

Hello, I'm having trouble getting the Neat Image plugin to work with Affinity Photo. It shows up under the Filters--Plugins menu, but when I click it, I get an error message that says "Neat Image, Internal Error". I am on a 2020 iMac, with the most up to date version of Affinity Photo, and am on Big Sur. Please advice. Thanks!