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  • How can I recycle a composition AND render later?

    Posted by Greg Gefell on September 28, 2005 at 8:19 pm

    I have a unique scenario where I would like to re-use an elaborate series of nested compositions I have created multiple times with different source footage. In a nutshell there are 50 clips of a talking head shot on blue. After a series of nested comps involving keys, feathers, crops, etc, the final composition is added to the render queue.

    At this point I could render the comp and then choose replace footage in the project window so that my next clip is automatically swapped and the next clip is ready to render. What I would prefer to do is get all 50 clips set up and in the queue and then go home while it renders overnight. If I swap out the footage before the comp is rendered then I obviously lose that 1st clip.

    I could save the project as a template and import that .aep repeatedly into a new project swapping the vid clip for each one but that seems kind of clunky.

    Any clever work arounds for this?

    Thanks.

    Greg Gefell replied 20 years, 10 months ago 4,039 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Greg Gefell

    September 30, 2005 at 1:04 pm

    Thanks, I’ll give it a try!

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