Pre-flighting After Effects projects for batch output
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The purpose of creating a “pre-flight” composition is to increase rendering efficiency so that Templater can “fly” through the process of rendering a batch of videos.
You can speed up each render within a batch by ensuring After Effects only reads non-dynamic frames, but calculates frames that contain dynamic data. Pre-render segments of your composition that contain no dynamic frames. Then construct a the pre-flight comp by stitching those pre-renders with the dynamic areas of the comp. The goal is to minimize the amount of “calculation” that must be done for a complete render. We do look forward to a product that can automate the creation of a pre-flight comp, but for now manually preparing is sufficient.
A video screencast showing a method for doing this is in the works for this, but for now feel free to use this thread to discuss optimization of target compositions.
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Do you have any video for this?
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Unfortunately, not at the moment. We will be adding more video showcasing these techniques in the future. Thanks for bearing with us. I will respond to your post about this to help. Thanks.
