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Difference between Rendering and “Make Movie”
Can anyone tell me? The help files are so vague.
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“Make movie” sets up a composition for Render. It opens the render queue and gives you the ability to change the setting for final output. Once set up, you hit the render button.
Rendering is the process of taking your comp and outputting it as a video file (or image sequence or audio file or whatever).
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forgive me, but that sounds like the same thing to me.
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It’s the difference between sitting down in your car and adjusting the seat and mirror, and actually driving.
Make movie is adjusting your car seat and mirror.
Rendering is driving.
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But at the end of both you have a video file (or image sequence or audio file or whatever), right?
I hope this isn’t a stupid question, but I really want to understand.
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After you “Make Movie”, which is adjust your settings etc, you then “Render” your movie, this will then output a sequence/file/.mov/.avi/etc.
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The work flow is like this:
Work in AE > Make Movie > Render
After you hit Make movie and set everything up then you render.
It is not the same thing, but eventually, yes, Make movie does lead you into rendering.
In fat, you can’t Render, unless you first “Make Movie” (although you can Export video which is a can of worms I want to avoid for this explanation…)
But again, adjusting your car seat and mirror (make Movie) are not the same thing as driving (Render) to your destination (Final Video). They are part of the process of getting prepaired for the drive.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
I usually just “Add to Render Queue”
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“Make movie” is what you select to set up a render. In AE, you have to render in order to create something useful.
In AE, “render” means “create a digital file on disk”. That file could be a digital video file, digital still file, digital image sequence or digital audio file.
Now “export” is used when creating special kinds of renders, such as SWF files. Why they’re listed separately, I don’t know, but it could be that they don’t use the render queue in the usual fashion.
By the way, most users rarely use “export”. Selecting “Make Movie” or “add to render queue” is normal procedure.
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Add to Render Queue is the same thing as Make movie – near as I can tell. In the past there may have been a different functionality, but i don’t see that now.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
Oh, Ok. Everything is much clearer now. Thank you, everyone for posting.
Hopefully this thread will help someone else out in the future.
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