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How to incorporate the changes of AE in the actual avi?
Hi,
I have a very basic question. I have a film say of 50 Mbs. I want to add few affects to the film in certains areas. Lets take for example when it’s raining in one of the shots I want to put a lighting effect.
After I have finished doing that I need to save the effects in the oriinal film. How do I manage to do that?
When I save it only saves the changes as a AE project. I have seen the RAM preview options as well. But to save a 50 Mbs file with RAM preview is a heafty price.
So how do I actually have the rendered changes included in the original AVI file.
Regards,
Anand -
2 Replies
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The function you’re looking for is the Render Queue, this holds a list of compositions that you want to render to a file as well as settings for the render (Output Module and Render Settings) and the location to which the file will be rendered.
To add a composition to the Render Queue select it and press cmd-\ (Mac) or ctrl-\ (PC). For more information on the render queue go here:
https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f0.html
After Effects will not allow you to replace your source footage with a render, you will create an entirely new AVI. Furthermore, you should not want to replace your source footage, as you may want to make other changes (or decide the AE render isn’t want you wanted after all) and keeping the source AVI will allow you to make those changes in AE.
If you replace your original footage you lose the ability to non-destructively change it in AE. You can still non-destructively change the file you replaced your source footage with, but if you constantly delete the source footage you are backing yourself into a corner that you’ll one day want to get out of (and you won’t be able to). And that is my rant on that =)
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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Hi Darby,
Thanks for valuable suggestions. I do understand when you say that the original footage should always be safe.
I will try your suggestions of render queue and will get back on this post with any further queries.
Regards,
Anand
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