• Adobe After Effects

  Set layer to render, but not to preview?

  Posted by Ocean Byrne on March 2, 2016 at 9:23 pm

  Is there a way to set a layer so that it will render when I do my final render, but will remain hidden while I am working? Like the opposite of a guide layer. Right now I am just turning the eyeballs off on my two effects heavy layers while I work, and then hopefully remembering to turn them back on before I render. (Do you get the impression maybe I have forgotten to reactivate them a time or two…)

  I have dabbled a bit with proxies, but I don’t really think that is what I’m looking for?
  In this case, I have a pre-comp that I am animating mostly text elements in on top of the rest of my action. Then I have a couple duplicate layers under the main pre-comp which have a variety of effects to give it a fancy glow and trailing echos, they are slow to render. So I want to quickly and interactively work just my text and main content, but be sure to render the fancy dance when it is all good to go…

  Any tips would be appreciated.
  Thanks

  Ocean Byrne replied 10 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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