• Adobe After Effects

  Pre- Rendering a single file

  Posted by Jacqueline Cheval on April 12, 2011 at 6:28 pm

  Hi,

  just wondering whether I can pre-render a single file, or whether I can
  only pre-render a comp.

  Seems that there is only the option of doing the latter, but maybe not?

  The only other option would be to create a proxy of a single file which I am aware of.

  thanks for any input.

  Jacqueline Cheval replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Dave Johnson

  April 12, 2011 at 6:39 pm

  Not sure I understand the question, but perhaps it’ll help to say that the only reason I can think of to render a single file through AE is if it’s been altered in some way within AE … the only way to alter a file in AE is inside of a comp so there’s effectively no difference between rendering that comp and rendering the altered “file”.

  Now, if you already have other files/layers in the same comp used to alter the file you want to render, you would need to pre-compose the layer that represents the file you want to render, then render that precomp. I hope that helps.
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  Jacqueline Cheval

  April 12, 2011 at 7:38 pm

  And yeah, it is for tons of effects applied to a single layer which slow down overall preview.

  Would pre-rendering help at all in this case?

  Or is it useless and a proxy would do the job?
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  Jacqueline Cheval

  April 12, 2011 at 8:48 pm

  Thanks a lot.

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