• Adobe After Effects

  working with multiple templates

  Posted by Tom Edwards on July 19, 2013 at 4:59 pm

  i have a client who wants me to use several templates from videohive to create an open for a video
  there are several templates in the pack he gave me and i am to incorporate several of them

  https://videohive.net/item/phantom-hud-infographic/5056658

  so….my dumb question is….. do i open each template i need to use, render it and include the rendered element in a new comp?

  or would it make more sense to pre-compose each template element, then add those to my main comp?

  thanks

  John Cuevas replied 12 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Cuevas

  July 19, 2013 at 6:19 pm

  Either way will work, but pre-rendering them will probably decrease the final overall render time some. The problem with pre-rendering(if render times are an issue) is that if the client changes his mind, you have wasted time rendering something you won’t need.

  I have a very fast computer, so my workflow(if doing the entire thing in AE) would be to set up my master comp with the icons as precomps and render the entire thing at once. If the client wanted to make a change, I would only need to change a precomp and be done. Alternatively, you could just set up each icon to render out with an alpha over night, and then you have everything and it will be pretty quick to make changes and renders to your file…

  Sorry if it’s not much help, there just really isn’t a right or wrong here, other than what will be the most efficient workflow for you and your computer system.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

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