Rendering a frame range, preserving frame numbers (AE CS5)

[Patrick Doan]

after browsing around for 5 – 10 minutes, i can’t seem to find a check box which asks whether i want the range being rendered to start at 00000 or to start at the current frame number. which would be strange because i have been doing “range rendering” since After Effects 6.0 and never had to checkbox anything – it would number the frames automatically, as it should.

here is a screenshot of my render queue settings:

Render Queue Export Settings

[Patrick Doan]

Normally you isolate a segment of the sequence to render when a new iteration is being requested to render. If the sequence lasts 3 minutes and you just need to update 12 seconds of that 3 minutes, it makes sense to render that 12 seconds rather than rendering out the entire sequence again, especially if the sequence is intensive and slow to render.

It seems I will have to use some batch renaming software to rename the exported sequence.

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[Remi Belcourt]

Patrick, did you ever figure this out? It seems I am currently having the same troubles you did 2 years ago. I would like to know what your solution was? I have been struggling with this almost a week, but I dont want to give up.

Thankyou,
Remi Belcourt

[Hannes Junge]

I have faced the same issue. Worked perfectly so far, but SUDDENTLY – without any action or changing something – the render starts every time at Frame0, regardless where i set my render range.

really annoying. I finally found the appropriate Setting under

Bearbeiten->Vorlage->Ausgabemodul || Einstellungen->Bearbeiten-> [x] Kompositions-Framenummer verwenden.

….since i am from Germany (and have the German Version of After Effects) i SUGGEST the above path in the english Version is something like:

Edit->Templates->Outputmodules || Settings->Edit [X] use comp. Framenumber

i have attached a screenshot where you can see where this setting is.

(Version: After Effects CC)

good luck 🙂