• Adobe After Effects

  Automated multiple render of the same composition with different layers

  Posted by David Slachta on March 8, 2016 at 7:20 am

  I have an image sequence of a car rotating on a turntable over 360 degrees and I need to change the car’s color and output the modified sequence. My problem is that there are 9 colors of the car which I need to output. So what I’m doing right now is that I enable the “Silver” layer and render. Enable the “Black” layer and render. Enable the “Red” layer and render and so on until I have all 9 colors rendered. Every time the background changes or some adjustment curve changes I have manually re-render all of the 9 colors again.

  Is it possible to write a script that would do exactly as I do manually?

  1. Render the composition as a TIF sequence from frame 0-35 named as A
  2. Enable layer 1
  3. Render the composition as a TIF sequence from frame 0-35 named as B
  4. Enable layer 2
  5. Render the composition as a TIF sequence from frame 0-35 named as C
  6. Enable layer 3
  7. …
  8. …

  Could anybody help me how to write such a script if possible?

  Thank you very much!
  David

  John Cuevas replied 10 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Cuevas

  March 8, 2016 at 2:21 pm

  This script might help. Render Layers

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  ThinkCK

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