• Adobe After Effects

  render automation

  Posted by Jonas Lund on November 25, 2007 at 2:46 am

  Hello. I have around 100 quicktimes that I want to render as avi files, to prepare for editing in Vegas. I know that Photoshop has a very nice automation feature, and was thinking something similar might be achieved with After Effects. Does anyone know how to do this? Or maybe someone knows of another app that can do it.. any suggestions will be much appreciated.

  Todd Kopriva replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Brendan Coots

  November 26, 2007 at 5:44 am

  Not that it answers your question, but why in the world would you do this? Vegas accepts Quicktime just as readily as AVI files. In addition, you will be recompressing your files and adding a layer of quality loss into the mix before you’ve even begun editing. NOT a good idea unless there is an extremely compelling reason, especially given how many clips you have.
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  Jonas Lund

  November 26, 2007 at 10:42 pm

  Thanks for the post Beeny. On my (rather antiquated) system quicktimes produce very sluggish framerates in vegas, especially when they are imported from mac/final cut, which is the case here. Youre right that it seems crazy to convert such an amount of clips (144 actually), it would take me at least 20 hours. The problem was that I couldnt capture on my computer, and the only alternative was a Mac. Fortunately its not a problem anymore, I have found another pc running vegas, and recaptured the footage.

  On that note I have a new question, less crazy than the last.
  I tried to find a way to transfer the log info from final cut to vegas, but without luck. Would you know how to do this? I read a bit about AAF and XML but ended up doing it manually.

  Thanks again.
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  Todd Kopriva

  November 30, 2007 at 10:45 pm

  You can import the files into After Effects and then drag the lot of them from the Project panel to the Render Queue panel. Then change the output module settings for the render items if necessary and click Render. Voila! Batch conversion.

  There’s a tip in the ” Render and export a movie using the render queue” section of After Effects CS3 Help to this end:

  “To create a new composition from a footage item and add that composition to the render queue, drag the footage item from the Project panel to the Render Queue panel. This is a convenient way to convert a footage item from one format to another.”

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