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  • How to work quickly and efficiently

    Posted by Romain Charles on November 4, 2014 at 8:51 am

    Hello everybody, first post, happy to join you ;).

    I’m french (please excuse my bad english) and I’ve learned after effects self-taught and work on for living for 3 years now.

    I would like to talk about the way of working in after effects, how to use templates, scripts and plugins.
    How do you do ? How do you manage to be the most efficient ?

    I present you my way :

    Firstly I use some scripts very useful :
    – ft-toolbar : you can access to commands, expressions or scripts by clicking on buttons. https://aescripts.com/ft-toolbar/
    – queue master : you can easily manage your renderings with a lot of options. https://aescripts.com/queuemaster/
    – rd_scriptlauncher : you can see and easily launch all your scripts. https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_ScriptLauncher
    – rd render_layer : select your layers and render them one by one. https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers
    – BG renderer : render and keep working. https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/

    About the templates, I have a project which contain many comp associated with group of effects or preset, so I can easily come to see how it works if I forget (which happens sometimes).

    I have also a project which contain all my lower thirds, a project with all my impact animations, etc..

    What do you think ? 🙂

    Faris Hijazi replied 9 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Dillon Cleary

    November 8, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    Make common commands a command when you set them to a letter. Also make note of the render sequence in/out.

  • Faris Hijazi

    July 6, 2016 at 7:05 am

    thank you for sharing this with us, i love customization.

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