Adobe AFTER EFFECTS CS3 PROFESSIONAL User Manual page 591

• Choose Composition > Add To Render Queue.
• Drag the composition to the Render Queue panel.
Click the triangle next to the Output To heading in the Render Queue panel to choose a name for the output file
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based on a naming convention, and then choose a location; or click the text next to the Output To heading to enter
any name. If you used Make Movie to add the composition to the render queue, then you can skip this step. (See
"Specify filenames and locations for rendered output" on page 590.)
Click the triangle to the right of the Render Settings heading to choose a render settings template, or click the
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underlined text to the right of the Render Settings heading to customize the settings. (See "Work with render
settings" on page 591.)
4 Choose a Log type from the Log menu.
Click the triangle to the right of the Output Module heading to choose an output module settings template, or
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click the underlined text to the right of the Output Module heading to customize the settings. You use the output
module settings to specify the file format of the output movie. In some cases, a format-specific dialog box opens after
you choose a format, in which you can specify format-specific settings. (See "Work with output module settings" on
page 594 and "Encoding and compression options for movies" on page 606.)
When an output name and location have been set, and render settings and an output module have been selected, the
entry in the Render column will automatically become selected (shown by a check mark) and the status will change
to Queued. This means that the render item is in the render queue.
Press the Caps Lock key before you start rendering to prevent the Composition panel from displaying rendered
frames. By not updating the Composition panel, After Effects requires less time to process simple render items with
a lot of frames.
6 Click the Render button in the upper-right corner of the Render Queue panel.
Work in the Render Queue panel
Use the Render Queue panel to render compositions, apply render settings and output module settings, and obtain
information on the rendering process.
When you place a composition into the Render Queue panel, it becomes a render item. You can add many render
items to the render queue, and After Effects can render multiple items in a batch, unattended. When you click the
Render button in the upper-right corner of the Render Queue panel, all items with the status of Queued are rendered
and output in the order in which they are listed in the Render Queue panel.
When rendering of a render item is complete, it remains in the Render Queue panel with its status changed to Done
until you remove the item from the Render Queue panel. You cannot re-render a completed item, but you can
duplicate it to create a new item in the queue with the same settings or with new settings.
When working with multiple render items, it is often useful to add comments in the Comments column in the Render
Queue panel. If the Comments column is not visible, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a column
heading, and choose Columns > Comments.
See also
"Render and export a movie using the render queue" on page 584
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