Specify filenames and, Locations for rendered output – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Maximum Number Of Machines
Note:
Use to specify the number of render engines or licensed copies of After Effects that you want to allocate
to render the collected project. Below this option, After Effects reports how many items in the project will be rendered using more than one
computer.
If rendering time is unusually long, you may have set Maximum Number Of Machines too high, and the network overhead required to
track rendering progress among all computers is out of proportion to the time spent actually rendering frames. The optimal number depends
on many variables related to the network configuration and the computers on it; experiment to determine the optimal number for your
network.
4. To add your own information to the report that will be generated, click Comments, enter your notes, and click OK. The comments appear at
the end of the report.
5. Click Collect. Name the folder and specify a location for your collected files.
Once you start the file collection, After Effects creates the folder and copies the specified files to it. The folder hierarchy is the same as the
hierarchy of folders and footage items in your project. The new folder includes a (Footage) folder and may include an output folder (if you
selected Change Render Output To).
The names of these folders appear in parentheses to signal to any attending render engines that they should not search these folders for projects.
Carl Larsen demonstrates the use of the Collect Files command and the Consolidate All Footage command in a video tutorial on the
that shows how to organize, consolidate, and archive project files and footage.
David Torno provides a script on the
exports specified information about a project.
Specify filenames and locations for rendered output
You can locate a previously rendered item or check the destination of a queued render item by expanding the Output Module group in the
Render Queue panel and clicking the underlined file path, or by right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac OS) the Output Module
heading.
Click the triangle to open the Output To menu.
Specify the filename and location for a single render item
To manually enter a filename and destination folder, click the underlined text next to the Output To heading.
To name a file using a file naming template, click the triangle next to the Output To heading, and choose a template from the menu.
Create and use a custom file naming template
You can use custom templates to name the output according to properties of the composition and project.
To make a file naming template the default template, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) as you choose the template from the
Output To menu.
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