How to properly pre render?
by Edward Calabig
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Jan 22, 2008 at 1:09:32 am
My AE keeps crashing whenever I try and render the whole thing. I've been told to try and pre-render but every time I try and pre-render one of my pre-comps, it ends up pre-rendering the whole movie.
How do I only pre-render certain portions? Thanks.
Re: How to properly pre render? by Kevin Camp on Jan 23, 2008 at 10:54:56 pm
sort of...
it doesn't out, say 10 seconds, then another 10 seconds, etc...
but, say you have a comp that has a few nested comps (pre-comps) or several layers that could be pre-comp'ed, and say those pre-comps have several effects that are taking a lot of time to render. you can choose to pre-render those, allowing you to more easily work with the main comp and render it faster and with less resources (ram cache, disk cache, image buffer, etc.). after pre-rendering, ae will automaiitcally import the render and replace the pre-comps with the footage in any comps that had that pre-comp nested...
it can be a very effect way to work as parts of you project become more solidified... and if you did need to change something, the original pre-comps are still there, so you can rework them and re-render them using the same name, then select the old footage in the project window and choose file>reload footage.
Re: How to properly pre render? by Brent Ayres on Aug 19, 2009 at 6:33:47 pm
Hey Kevin - Brent Ayres here... how's it going. I was having some issues rendering out a clip and getting an error message. I looked up the issue here and low and behold your face popped up! I pre comped some things and pre-rendered and now no error messages. Thanks!
Hope you and the family are doing well. I hear that the AM news is expanding, so I'm sure you're busy with that...
