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Render time
Hello, I’m trying to understand the rendering process using several different “layer compositions” in my “main composition” timeline. If the “layer comp” duration was originally 2 minutes long. But once I used this “layer comp” in the “main composition” I trimmed the “layer comp” down to 10 seconds. Now when rendering the main composition is it factoring in the 2 minutes of entire “layer comp” or just the 10 seconds i”m using?
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2 Replies
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Simply put, After Effects renders vertically (many layers, one frame at a time*), not horizontally (time). For each frame Ae renders, it will work from the bottom up to build the frame. The duration of your source materials does not impact your render times.
*The latest version of After Effects is capable of multi-frame rendering, but even though it’s processing several frames at a time, it’s still working layer by layer within each frame.
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Thank for the reply Walter, and the breakdown!
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