Adobe After Effects - Manual (Page 715)

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The Render Queue panel
The primary way of rendering and exporting movies from After Effects is through the Render Queue panel. (See Render and export with the
Render Queue panel .)
You do not need to render a movie multiple times to export it to multiple formats with the same render settings. You can export multiple
versions of the same rendered movie by adding output modules to a render item in the Render Queue panel.
In the Render Queue panel, you can manage several render items at once, each with its own render settings and output module settings. Render
settings determine the following characteristics :
Output frame rate
Duration
Resolution
Layer quality
Output module settings—which are applied after render settings—determine post-rendering characteristics such as
Output format
Compression options
Cropping
whether to embed a link to the project in the output file
You can create templates that contain commonly used render settings and output module settings.
Using the Render Queue panel, you can render the same composition to different formats or with different settings, all with one click of the Render
button:
You can output to a sequence of still images, such as a Cineon sequence, which you can then transfer to film for cinema projection.
You can output using lossless compression (or no compression) to a QuickTime container for transfer to a non-linear editing (NLE) system
for video editing.
To output a movie file from the Render Queue, see Render and export a movie using the render queue .
To transfer the output rendered from After Effects to film or video, you must have the proper hardware for film or video transfer, or have
access to a service bureau that can provide transfer services.
Adobe Media Encoder
There are two ways Adobe Media Encoder can create an output file from After Effects. You can output files by using the Render Queue or you can
import compositions directly into the standalone version of Adobe Media Encoder.
For the Render Queue, After Effects uses an embedded version of the Adobe Media Encoder to encode most movie formats through the Render
Queue panel. When you manage render and export operations with the Render Queue panel, the embedded version of the Adobe Media Encoder
is called automatically. The Adobe Media Encoder appears only in the form of the export settings dialog boxes with which you specify some
encoding and output settings. (See
Encoding and compression options for movies .)
The embedded version of the Adobe Media Encoder used to manage export settings within After Effects output modules does not provide
all of the features of the full, stand-alone Adobe Media Encoder application. For information about the full, stand-alone Adobe Media Encoder
application, see
Adobe Media Encoder Help .
You can also import After Effects compositions directly into Adobe Media Encoder which offers the flexibility to continue working in After Effects
while files are processed. You also have options that are not available in the Render Queue, like two pass encoding.
To add a composition to Adobe Media Encoder without using the Render Queue, do the following:
1. Drag the After Effects project containing the composition you want to encode into the Encdoding Queue in Adobe Media Encoder.
2. The Import After Effects Composition dialog box launches. Choose the composition you want to encode.
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