• Adobe After Effects

  How can I recycle a composition AND render later?

  Posted by Greg Gefell on September 28, 2005 at 8:19 pm

  I have a unique scenario where I would like to re-use an elaborate series of nested compositions I have created multiple times with different source footage. In a nutshell there are 50 clips of a talking head shot on blue. After a series of nested comps involving keys, feathers, crops, etc, the final composition is added to the render queue.

  At this point I could render the comp and then choose replace footage in the project window so that my next clip is automatically swapped and the next clip is ready to render. What I would prefer to do is get all 50 clips set up and in the queue and then go home while it renders overnight. If I swap out the footage before the comp is rendered then I obviously lose that 1st clip.

  I could save the project as a template and import that .aep repeatedly into a new project swapping the vid clip for each one but that seems kind of clunky.

  Any clever work arounds for this?

  Thanks.

  Greg Gefell replied 20 years, 7 months ago 4,039 Members · 1 Reply
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  Greg Gefell

  September 30, 2005 at 1:04 pm

  Thanks, I’ll give it a try!

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