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Effects. When using third-party plug-ins, also be sure that the same plug-ins are available on all computers and that you have sufficient
licenses for the plug-ins.
2. Open the project on one computer, select the composition, and then choose Composition > Add To Render Queue.
3. Specify a sequence format in the Output Module area, and specify a folder in the Output To area. This folder must be available for all the
computers that are rendering.
4. In the Render Queue panel, select Skip Existing Files in the Render Settings section so that multiple computers do not render the same
frames. Do not use multiple output modules for one render item when using Skip Existing Files.
5. Save the project on the computer where you opened it in step 2.
6. On each computer that will be rendering, open and save the project. Saving the project ensures that After Effects records the new relative
paths to each computer in the following step.
7. Unless the network can handle large file transfers rapidly, copy the project file and all its source footage to each rendering computer.
8. Open the Render Queue panel on each computer and click Render. You do not need to start rendering on each computer simultaneously,
but to ensure equal workloads, start them at approximately the same time. As each computer finishes rendering a frame, After Effects
searches the Output folder for the next unrendered frame and starts rendering again.
9. You can stop and start any computer at any time. However, if you stop a computer without starting it again, the frame that it was rendering
may not be finished. If one or more computers stop during rendering, starting any one computer ensures that all frames in the sequence get
rendered.
Segment settings
Segment settings are in the Output preferences category.
Choose Edit > Preferences > Output (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > Output (Mac OS).
After Effects can render sequences and movie files into segments that are limited to a specified number of files or by file size. This is useful when
preparing a movie for a medium such as CD-ROM, for which file or folder size may need to be limited to chunks of 650 MB or less. Use the
Segment Video-only Movie Files At value to set the maximum size for segments in megabytes. Use the Segment Sequences At value to set the
maximum number of still-image files in a folder.
If you are exporting a movie that is larger than the maximum file size for your hard disk formatting scheme, then you can set the Segment Video-
only Movie Files At value to a value under this maximum. Hard disks formatted for Windows can be formatted using the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS
scheme. The maximum file size in the FAT scheme is 2 GB, and the maximum file size in the FAT32 scheme is 4 GB. The maximum size for a file
for NTFS is very large (approximately 16 terabytes), so you are unlikely to reach this limit with a single movie.
Only movies that do not contain audio can be segmented. If an output module includes audio, the Segment Video-only Movie Files At preference
is ignored for that item.
The Segment Sequences At preference is ignored for any render item for which Skip Existing Files is selected in the render settings. (See Render
settings reference.)
After Effects won’t render and export a segmented movie to the root directory (e.g., C:\). To render and export a segmented movie, choose
an output directory other than the root directory. (See Specify filenames and locations for rendered output.)
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