Overview
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Get strategies to help you render faster and work less in After Affects. Explore how to use render settings templates, render with Media Encoder, set up a network render, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Using render settings templates
- Creating custom render settings templates
- Sharing render settings templates
- Using output module templates
- Creating custom output module templates
- Sharing output module templates
- Setting the default render and output settings
- Using multiple output modules
- Render with transparency
- Sending items to AME for background rendering
- Creating custom output templates
- Advice for working with Adobe Media Encoder
- Setting RAM usage
- Controlling cache size
- Purging RAM
- Using performance disk cache
- Checking processor and RAM details
- Using a disk cache
- Choosing the right drive for your cache
- The role of conformed media cache
- Cleaning the media cache database and drives periodically
- Creating RAM previews
- Saving RAM previews
- Setting the work area
- Using the region of interest
- Controlling composition settings
- Adjusting motion blur
- Using proxy files
- Use adjustment layers
- Collecting files
- Render and email
- Re-rendering
- Including a project link
- Post-render actions
- Render and replace dynamic linked compositions
- What is network rendering?
- Setting up a watch folder
- Creating a still image sequence with multiple machines
- Next steps
