• Adobe After Effects

  Render Queue problem

  Posted by Balazs Frank on September 7, 2010 at 6:28 pm

  Hi,

  I have a big master comp in AE CS4, where each comp is on separate layer, there are 16 layers. I select the first, set the In-Out point with the Alt+Ctrl+B, and then add this to the Render Queue.

  I apply these steps to the rest 15 layers.
  When checking the rendering settings, the In and Out frames are indicated well. So there are 16 jobs now in the Render Queue.

  Now the problem is that all movie is rendered with the last set In/Out region, and I have the SAME movie rendered 16x times!!!
  It really drives me mad… hope it is not the way works…

  Please help: how to render each section (layer) to its movie file?

  Thanks,
  Balazs

  Todd Kopriva replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Balazs Frank

  September 7, 2010 at 6:36 pm

  In the Renders Settings there is a setting called “Time Span”.

  When I set “Work Area Only”, doesn’t it mean that it will only render that segment of a comp? It works for RAM Previews, but really it does not work with a lengthy Comp?

  Is there any workaround?
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  Balazs Frank

  September 7, 2010 at 7:12 pm

  Thanks for the suggestion, it is a workaround, it was well within 5 minutes…

  The layers were consecutive, each following the other.

  I think this is a very illogical working method of AE. The manual says:

  “Time Span – How much of the composition to render. To render the entire composition, choose Length Of Comp. To render only the part of the composition indicated by the work-area markers, choose Work Area Only. To render a custom time span, choose Custom. (See “Work area” on page 201.)”

  And here are some workarounds – it is a shame that an easy task like this has to be done with scripts:
  https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/ and the Queue_Comp_Sections.jsx
  Will try it out when will have some more time….
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  Balazs Frank

  September 7, 2010 at 7:31 pm

  Exactly.

  AE should work not by the LAST setting, but by the actual setting fixed into a render job at the time when it was added to the render queue. Very annoying thing, but the workaround you suggested works now.
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 7, 2010 at 8:51 pm

  If you really need to layers separately, see the script from Jeff Alamsol linked to from here.

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