Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 700)

694 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Rendering and exporting
Last updated 12/21/2009
• To stop rendering with the purpose of starting the same render over again, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Mac OS) Stop.
The render item for which rendering was stopped is assigned the status User Stopped, and a new item with the status
of Queued is added to the Render Queue panel. The new item uses the same output filename and has the same duration
as the original render item.
• To stop rendering with the purpose of resuming the same render, click Stop.
The render item for which rendering was stopped is assigned the status User Stopped, and a new item with the status
of Unqueued is added to the Render Queue panel. The new item uses an incremented output filename and resumes
rendering at the frame at which rendering was stopped.
Information shown for current render operations
Basic information about the current batch of renders is shown at the bottom of the Render Queue panel:
Message A status message.
RAM Memory available for the rendering process.
Renders Started The time at which the current batch of renders was started.
Total Time Elapsed The rendering time elapsed (not counting pauses) since the current batch of renders was started.
To view more information about the current render operation, click the triangle to the left of the Current Render
heading. The Current Render pane collapses (closes) after a short time. To expand the pane so that it does not collapse
after a time-out period, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the triangle next to the Current Render heading.
To view details of a completed render, review the log file. When a log file has been written, the path to the log file appears
under the Render Settings heading and Log menu.
Rerender a previously rendered item
1 Select the render item.
2 Do one of the following:
• To render with the same filename, choose Edit > Duplicate With File Name.
• To render with a new filename, choose Edit > Duplicate, click the underlined filename next to Output To, enter a
new filename, and click Save.
3 Click Render.
Online resources for rendering and exporting with the render queue
Sam Morris provides a tutorial on his website that demonstrates how to render and export a movie using the render
queue.
You can use the render_and_email.jsx script to render all queued render items and then send you an email message
when you're done. Ko Maruyama provides a tutorial for setting up the script on
his website .
Lloyd Alvarez provides a script on his After Effects Scripts website that takes items that are ready to render in the
render queue and sends them to render in the background using aerender.
Jeff Almasol provides a script on his redefinery website that renders and exports each of the selected layers separately.
You might find this script useful if layers represent different versions of an effect or different parts of an effect that you
want to render as separate “passes” for flexibility in how they get composited.
Christopher Green provides a script (Queue_Comp_Sections.jsx) on his website with which you can use multiple
guide layers to designate multiple time spans to be rendered and exported separately through the render queue.