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Working on a project while exporting in Encoder
This is one of those holes in my self-taught knowledge that I probably would have learned with a more formal education in After Effects.
I know that using Media Encoder to export my After Effects Projects will allow me to continue working in AFX while the export is happening. My question is: can I alter the composition that I’m exporting while that export is happening in Media Encoder? Or will it cause issues?
What I THINK, is that After Effects shares where the project is at with Media Encoder and then Encoder doesn’t care what After Effects is doing any more. So I COULD alter the composition after sending it to Encoder to export.
I assume that even if I were wrong about it, that the export would fail and no harm no foul. But I also have memories older software and still have nightmares about corrupted files etc… So I’m a bit phobic about trying it on a real project. 🙂
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[Matt Davis] “What I THINK, is that After Effects shares where the project is at with Media Encoder and then Encoder doesn’t care what After Effects is doing any more. So I COULD alter the composition after sending it to Encoder to export. “
That’s exactly right. Ae creates a temporary copy of your AEP, and that’s what AME references for its encode. You can continue work in your project and it will have no effect on any renders-in-progress that you had previously sent to AME.
Walter Soyka
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Awesome. Thanks.
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