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Help with my workflow
I will composite 4 keyed-out humans in an After Effects composition.
It is really hard to work with HD footage that has Keylight attached to it – even if you have only one track and even if you lower the preview quality to 1/8, still the footage slows down the machine tremendously.
If you have not 1 but 4 tracks with Keylight attached, all of them in one composition, then I guess the computer will just stop working.
So, is it a good workflow to key-out the different tracks, then render them and then import them back in AE?
Is there any other, better workflow?
Am I missing something?Thanks!
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[Blahtor Magnus] “So, is it a good workflow to key-out the different tracks, then render them and then import them back in AE?
that’s the workflow i’d use…
you can use the composition>pre-render feature to add a comp to the render queue and have ae automatically import it and replace the pre-comp with the rendered footage where ever it was used, which is really handy. it won’t delete the pre-comp or anything, so if you need to make adjustments later you can go back to the original pre-comp, tweak it and re-render the footage (with same name) and update that way.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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It will preserve the separate tracks and re-import the rendered material as separate tracks again?
Sounds like a cool trick!
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no need to start replacing footage,
Queue your comp,
make it a PSD sequence or movie with alpha channel,
In the output module, set the post-render action to “Set Proxy”,
after rendering your proxy will be linked automatically.next to your media you’ll have a proxy on or off switch.
cya,
Jan
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