Attempts to downsample footage while dragging a layer or scrubbing a property value. For the ray-traced 3D compositions, Adaptive Resolution reduces the ray-tracing quality based on the current adaptive resolution:. Available in ray-traced 3D compositions only. This option reduces the ray-tracing quality number of rays fired by the ray tracer to 1.
When laying out a complex scene, or if you are working in a ray-traced 3D composition, you can use Fast Draft mode for previewing. In ray-traced 3D compositions, Fast draft mode renders beveled, extruded, and curved 3D layers. When previewing, the scene is downsampled to speed up the loading of textures to the GPU.
In Fast Draft mode, each frame of video is still read into the renderer as needed. Note: Changing the Fast Previews mode to match your workflow is important, especially when working with ray-traced 3D compositions. In the Previews preferences category, you can choose the quality and speed of color management and zoom operations used in previews. The Zoom Quality preference affects the quality of scaling performed for pixel aspect ratio correction in the Composition and Layer panels.
The region of interest ROI is the area of the composition, layer, or footage item that is rendered for previews. Create a smaller region of interest to use less processing power and memory when previewing, thereby improving interaction speed and increasing preview duration. By default, changing the region of interest does not affect file output. You can change the size of your composition and select what portion is rendered by cropping to the region of interest.
Note: When the region of interest is selected, the Info panel displays the horizontal and vertical distances of the top T , left L , bottom B , and right R edges of the region from the upper-left corner of the composition. Note: To create the equivalent of a region of interest for a single layer, you can draw a temporary mask around the part of the layer that you are working with.
The area outside the mask is not rendered. This can make working with a small portion of a large layer much faster. See Creating masks.
The work area is the part of the duration of a composition that is rendered for previews or final output. In the Timeline panel, the work area appears in a lighter shade of gray. To expand the work area to the size of the composition, double-click the center of the work area bar.
When you want to compare one view to another in a Composition, Layer, or Footage panel, take a snapshot. For example, you may want to compare two frames at different times in a movie.
Snapshots taken in one kind of panel can be displayed in another kind. For example, you can take a snapshot of a Layer panel and display the snapshot in a Composition or Footage panel. Displaying a snapshot does not replace the content of the panel. If the snapshot has a different size or aspect ratio than the panel in which you display it, the snapshot is resized to fit the current view.
Snapshots are for reference only and do not become part of the layer, composition, or rendered movie. You can preview the contents of your Layer, Footage, or Composition panel on an external video monitor.
Previewing on a video monitor requires additional hardware, such as a video capture card or a FireWire port.
If you are using a video capture card to connect an external video monitor, install the appropriate drivers and connect the monitor to view previews. If you are using a FireWire port, first connect a digital camcorder or similar device to the port; then connect the video monitor to the device. For more information on setting up FireWire previews, see the documentation for your digital camcorder, VCR, or other devices.
Choose Disable video output when in the Background option to prevent video frames from being sent to the external monitor when After Effects is not the foreground application.
Choose the Video preview during render queue output option to send video frames to the external monitor when After Effects is rendering frames in the render queue. The video preview sent to an external monitor using Mercury Transmit is color-managed treating the external video preview monitor as an HDTV Rec.
For more information, see the Video preview using Mercury Transmit article. Note: The Wireframe preview mode does not preview at all to the video preview monitor. See Preview modes and Choose a working color space and enable color management. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy.
Buy now. Previewing Search. Adobe After Effects User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:. Applies to: Adobe After Effects. Preview video and audio. Use preview to play video and audio. To start a preview of video and audio, do any of the following:. Each keyboard shortcut results in a different Preview behavior, based on the Preview settings assigned to each of the keys. You can configure the Preview behavior for each keyboard shortcut by modifying settings in the Preview panel. For more information, see Configure Preview Behaviors.
Click the Play button in the Preview panel. When you click the Play button, settings assigned for the Shortcut currently displayed in the Preview panel, are used. When you select the Play option, settings assigned for the shortcut currently displayed in the Preview panel are used.
It can be used for personal and commercial purposes. This next After Effects template is great for short presentations that use footages or images along with texts. Also, the font Orbitron is free to download. Here is a template with a cluster of particle effects that seemingly look like falling snows. This is customizable in AE CS3 and its higher versions; and can be used as a dramatic background.
Here is another lower third template that comes in 3 color variations. It can be used in a variation of situations such as displaying must-know information, creating a news headline, name recognition, etc.
In this template, you have a cinematic trailer that convincingly displays texts with impressive effects of lens flares, shattering, and glowing texts. You can download this template free with the soundtrack used. Tron Project is template that creates 3D text with a few expressions. Learn how to use this project with a brief video walk-through that you can refer to in editing the template. This typography template uses particles that seem like small bubbles that slowly fill up sans-serif letters.
You can use this to present your text videos in a fun and entertaining way. For this After Effects template, a logo is being revealed in an extruded manner. You can easily edit this template and add your own logo and texts in it. No plugins are required on this template.
The After Effectstemplate will dramatically reveal your personal logo with the very realistic metal texture and sci-fi-inspired elements. It holds 13 title placeholders and another 5 placeholders for images and videos.
Each of these compositions has its unique animation. Here is a template that will fantastically reveal your logo from the space. You can achieve this mesmerizing effect by just adding your logo, optionally editing some elements and presto.
No plugins are required. Radeon is another free template that incorporates glares, lens flares, and liquefied elements. You can simply edit the elements depending on your preferences.
No third-party plugins are required. This After Effects template has a text reveal presentation with clouds on the background and some articles roaming around. Also, some Optical Flares were used in creating this template. Path gives you a template that you can edit without using 3rd party plugins. It contains 11 title placeholders and lasts for 72 seconds.
Here is a logo reveal that is brought to us by a cube. It comes in 4 color versions: black, white, red, blue. All of the elements have their own layers that can be customized independently without any plugins.
Another lower third, but this time it is in a cool and hi-tech theme. This is great freebie if your project is aiming for a futuristic design. This template caters a slideshow of photos in circular frames.
Log and render with placeholder color bars. Network rendering with watch folders and render engines. Network considerations. Project considerations. Are there any other limitations or tips that apply to using the plug-in for network rendering?
Collect Files folder considerations. Track dependencies of a watch-folder render. This procedure assumes that you have already created a multiple-computer watch-folder. In the Render Queue panel, drag the output module to the Project panel. Drag the placeholder back to the Render Queue panel.
Set the render settings and output module settings for the placeholder, and click Render. Start in watch-folder mode. Watch-folder mode applies only to rendering from a folder on your local computer. To start After Effects in watch-folder mode automatically, save a project with the filename Watch This Folder. After Effects watches the folder containing the project if you open that project.
You can also use this command line in batch files. Render farming - Render a still-image sequence with multiple computers. Set up the network. Render a still-image sequence with multiple computers. Important points in the process of rendering a still image sequence with multiple computers: To render a still-image sequence with multiple computers, you can use any number of computers. When you render a still-image sequence with multiple computers, rendering in each copy of After Effects starts at approximately the same time.
If your queued render items are set to Skip Existing Files a Render Settings option , the render process skips the existing frames or frames in progress. Multiple computers can render the project simultaneously, writing the still-image sequence to a single folder. To render a still-image sequence, follow these steps:. Save the project on the computer where you opened it in step 2.
On each computer that will be rendering, open and save the project. Saving the project ensures that After Effects records the new relative paths to each computer in the following step. Unless the network can handle large file transfers rapidly, copy the project file and all its source footage to each rendering computer. You can stop and start any computer at any time. However, if you stop a computer without starting it again, the frame that it was rendering may not be finished.
If one or more computers stop during rendering, starting any one computer ensures that all frames in the sequence get rendered. Run aerender in non-royalty bearing mode. Install After Effects on the render-only machine. Segment settings. Segment settings are in the Output preferences category. More like this Basics of rendering and exporting Render and export with the Render Queue panel. Does not render. You can also export After Effects compositions directly into Adobe Media Encoder, which offers the flexibility to continue working in After Effects while files are being processed.
To fasten the process, use Mutli-Frame Rendering. When you use Adobe Media Encoder, you can also use additional presets and options that are not available in the After Effects Render Queue. You can add your composition to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue using one of the following methods:. The output module settings, such as format settings or color channel selection, are not transferred to Adobe Media Encoder when you choose the Queue in AME option.
The output filename and location are transferred, however, Adobe Media Encoder does not use the filename and location templates, which may result in image sequence numbering mismatch. The Import After Effects Composition dialog box opens. Choose the composition you want to encode. Encode the file as you normally would by choosing presets and an output location in Adobe Media Encoder. After Effects provides various formats and compression options for output.
Which format and compression options you choose depends on how your output will be used. By contrast, if the movie that you create from After Effects is an intermediate product that will be used as input to a video editing system, then you should output without compression to a format compatible with the video editing system. See Planning your work. Keep in mind the fact that you can use different encoding and compression schemes for different phases of your workflow. For example, you may choose to export a few frames as full-resolution still images for example, TIFF files when you need approval from a customer about the colors in a shot; whereas you may export the movie using a lossy encoding scheme for example, H.
You can add the ability to export other kinds of data by installing plug-ins or scripts provided by parties other than Adobe. The Collect Files command gathers copies of all the files in a project or composition into a single location. Use this command before rendering, for archiving, or for moving a project to a different computer system or user account. When you use the Collect Files command, After Effects creates a new folder and the following information is saved in the new folder:.
After you collect files, you can continue making changes to a project, but be aware that those changes are stored with the original project and not with the newly collected version. For All Comps. For Selected Comps. Collects all footage files and proxies used in compositions currently selected in the Project panel.
For Queued Comps. Collects all footage files and proxies used directly or indirectly in any of the compositions with a Queued status in the Render Queue panel.
None Project Only. Generate Report Only. Obey Proxy Settings. Use this option with compositions that include proxies to specify whether you want the copy to include the current proxy settings.
If this option is selected, only the files used in the composition are copied. If this option is not selected, the copy contains both proxies and source files, so you can later change proxy settings in the collected version. If you choose For Queued Comps in the Collect Source Files dialog box, After Effects uses the proxy settings from the render settings, not the composition.
Reduce Project. Change Render Output To. Use to redirect the output modules to render files to a named folder in the collected files folder. Rendering status must be valid Queued, Unqueued, or Will Continue for the output modules to render files to this folder. You can use the Collect Files command to save projects to a specified watch folder and then initiate watch-folder rendering over a network.
After Effects and any installed render engines can then render the project together across a network. See Set up watch-folder rendering. Maximum Number Of Machines.
Use to specify the number of render engines or licensed copies of After Effects that you want to allocate to render the collected project.
Below this option, After Effects reports how many items in the project will be rendered using more than one computer. 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.
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. 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. You can use custom templates to name the output according to properties of the composition and project.
If you want to base the new file-naming template on an existing template, choose the existing template from the Preset menu. Click in the Template box where you want to insert a file-naming rule, and do any of the following:. To save the file-naming template as a preset for future use in the Output To menu, click the Save button.
In the Choose Name dialog box, enter a name for the file-naming template, and click OK. The Use Default File Name And Folder preference ensures that all compositions added to the render queue are automatically assigned a unique output filename except for files created by saving previews, which still use the composition name.
When this option is selected, each render item is assigned the same folder name as the previous render item until you change the path. Avoid using high-ASCII or other extended characters in filenames for projects to be used on different platforms or rendered using a watch folder. You can add paths to templates. Absolute paths can be defined in a template. Render settings apply to each render item and determine how the composition is rendered for that specific render item.
By default, the render settings for a render item are based on the current project settings, composition settings, and switch settings for the composition on which the render item is based.
However, you can modify the render settings for each render item to override some of these settings. Render settings apply to the root composition for a render item, as well as all nested compositions. The default render settings template is assigned to a render item when it is created.
To change which render settings template is the default, hold down Ctrl Windows or Command Mac OS as you choose a render settings template from the menu. You perform the following tasks in the Render Settings Templates dialog box. Changes to an existing template do not affect render items that are already in the render queue. Each of these settings overrides composition settings, project settings, or layer switch settings. You can choose how much information After Effects writes to a render log file.
If you choose Errors Only, After Effects only creates the file if errors are encountered during rendering. If you choose Plus Settings, a log file is created that lists the current render settings. If you choose Plus Per Frame Info, a log file is created that lists the current render settings and information about the rendering of each frame.
The quality setting to use for all layers. See Layer image quality and subpixel positioning. Resolution of the rendered composition, relative to the original composition dimensions.
See Resolution. If you render at reduced resolution, set the Quality option to Draft. Rendering at Best quality when reducing resolution produces an unclear image and takes longer than Draft quality. Determines whether the disk cache preferences are used during rendering. Read Only writes no new frames to the disk cache while After Effects renders. Determines whether to use proxies when rendering.
Current Settings uses the settings for each footage item. See Placeholders and proxies. Current Settings default uses the current settings for Effect switches.
All On renders all applied effects. All Off renders no effects. Solo Switches. Current Settings default uses the current settings for Solo switches for each layer. All Off renders as if all Solo switches are off. See Solo a layer. Guide Layers. Current Settings renders guide layers in the top-level composition.
All Off the default setting does not render guide layers. Guide layers in nested compositions are never rendered. See Guide layers. Current Settings default uses the project bit depth. See Color depth and high dynamic range color. Frame Blending. On For Checked Layers renders frame blending only for layers with the Frame Blending switch set, regardless of the Enable Frame Blending setting for the composition. See Frame blending. Field Render.
Determines the field-rendering technique used for the rendered composition. Choose Off if you are rendering for film or for display on a computer screen.
See Interlaced video and separating fields. Specifies the phase of pulldown. See Introduce pulldown. Current Settings uses the current settings for the Motion Blur layer switch and the Enable Motion Blur composition switch. On For Checked Layers renders motion blur only for layers with the Motion Blur layer switch set, regardless of the Enable Motion Blur setting for the composition. Off For All Layers renders all layers without motion blur regardless of the layer switch and composition switch settings.
See Motion blur. How much of the composition to render. To render the entire composition, choose Length Of Comp. To render only the part of the composition indicated by the work area markers, choose Work Area Only. To render a custom time span, choose Custom.
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