Mass export question

[Jason Weitz]

Thanks for the response! As I understand it, those instructions are alluding to clips from the project tab into the render queue. What I have is a sequence of clips one after another in a composition, with effects applied to each one. Those are what I need to be exported individually. It is highly probable that I am overlooking something in the link you posted, but I would only rate my self as being slightly less than capable. I can survive but honestly don’t know a ton, so a big point in the right direction and a kick in the pants would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Andy George]

I did run across a script that might do what you want the other day,
though I have never used it.

Here is a link to it.

https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers

Andy

[Jason Weitz]

Wow, wish you’d responded sooner, I already did it manually 🙂 I’ll definitely keep this around and try it on the next occasion, as I’m sure there will be one. Thanks!

[Todd Kopriva]

FWIW, that script from Jeff Almasol is linked to from the introductory section on rendering in After Effects Help. I’ve used it and can vouch for its usefulness. (I’m not just saying that because Jeff works down the hall from me.)

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[Stuart Elith]

There is another way to export multiple parts from one comp. In your case, it sounds like that script mentioned would work well, since it’s all from one timeline that you imported, and you can just split it into sections to render off.

But if you have done some comps that have multiple layers contributing to one final shot, but want a few sections rendered separately from that comp, you can do the following :

Define the work area as usual, and send it to the render queue. Here, choose Render Settings and select Time Span > Custom. This will set the time span to the current values of the work area. You can then go back to the comp, define a new work area, add to the render queue and repeat the process. Then when you have all your sections done, you can just hit Render as usual 🙂

You need to choose Custom because this kind of locks in the current work area values… if you just leave it as Work Area, each time you change it in the comp, all the renders will be using the new value.