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Note: If rendering time is unusually long, you may have set Maximum Number Of Machines too high, and the network
overhead required to track rendering progress among all computers is out of proportion to the time spent actually
rendering frames. The optimal number depends on many variables related to the network configuration and the
computers on it; experiment to determine the optimal number for your network.
To add your own information to the report that will be generated, click Comments, type your notes, and click OK.
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The comments appear at the end of the report.
Click Collect. Name the folder and specify a location for your collected files.
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Once you start the file collection, After Effects creates the folder and copies the specified files to it. The folder
hierarchy is the same as the hierarchy of folders and footage items in your project. The new folder includes a
(Footage) folder and may include an output folder (if you selected Change Render Output To).
The names of these folders appear in parentheses to signal to any attending render engines that they should not
search these folders for projects.
Specify filenames and locations for rendered output
You can locate a previously rendered item or check the destination of a queued render item by expanding the Output
Module group in the Render Queue panel and clicking the underlined file path, or by right-clicking (Windows) or
Control-clicking (Mac OS) the Output Module heading.
Click the triangle to open the Output To menu, or click the underlined text to enter a destination.
Specify the filename and location for a single render item
• To manually enter a filename and destination folder, click the underlined text next to the Output To heading.
• To name a file using a file naming template, click the triangle next to the Output To heading, and choose a template
from the menu.
Change the destination for multiple queued render items
1 In the Render Queue panel, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) multiple queued render items to
select them.
Click the underlined filename next to Output To for any item.
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3 Choose the folder in which you want to place the rendered files. The destinations for all selected items change to
the new destination folder.
Create and use a custom file naming template
You can use custom templates to name the output according to properties of the composition and project.
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