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After Effects Guru: Work Faster and Boost Performance

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Overview

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Get strategies to help you render faster and work less in After Affects. Explore how to use render settings templates, render with Media Encoder, set up a network render, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Exercise files
1. Render Settings and Output Modules
  • Using render settings templates
  • Creating custom render settings templates
  • Sharing render settings templates
  • Using output module templates
  • Creating custom output module templates
  • Sharing output module templates
  • Setting the default render and output settings
  • Using multiple output modules
  • Render with transparency
2. Rendering with Adobe Media Encoder (AME)
  • Sending items to AME for background rendering
  • Creating custom output templates
  • Advice for working with Adobe Media Encoder
3. Controlling RAM
  • Setting RAM usage
  • Controlling cache size
  • Purging RAM
  • Using performance disk cache
  • Checking processor and RAM details
4. Controlling Disk and Media Cache
  • Using a disk cache
  • Choosing the right drive for your cache
  • The role of conformed media cache
  • Cleaning the media cache database and drives periodically
5. Effective Preview Strategies
  • Creating RAM previews
  • Saving RAM previews
  • Setting the work area
  • Using the region of interest
6. Strategies That Impact Render Time
  • Controlling composition settings
  • Adjusting motion blur
  • Using proxy files
  • Use adjustment layers
  • Collecting files
  • Render and email
  • Re-rendering
  • Including a project link
  • Post-render actions
  • Render and replace dynamic linked compositions
7. Creating a Render Farm
  • What is network rendering?
  • Setting up a watch folder
  • Creating a still image sequence with multiple machines
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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