ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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Changing the rendering order
Sometimes, projects require a visual effect that cannot be achieved by using the default rendering order. For example,
youmaybeconstructingananimationinwhichyouwantarotatedobjecttohaveadrop-shadoweffect.Bydefault,
After Effects renders an effect before rotation, which creates shadows that all have different light-source orientations.
To render the animation so that the shadows appear as if created by a single light source, you need to apply rotation
before you apply the drop-shadow effect.
Although you can’t instruct After Effects to change the order of processing within a layer, there are three ways to get
the rendering order you want: applying the Transform effect; including an adjustment layer above the layer; or
nesting or precomposing.
Transform effect
Apply Transform effects when you want a transform property to render before another effect. These transform
changes will be rendered before subsequent effects. Other transform properties, set in the Timeline panel, will be
rendered last.
Adjustment layer
Use an adjustment layer in your composition when you want to change rendering order and apply transform
propertiesoreffectstomorethanonelayeratatime.Whenyouapplyaneffecttoanadjustmentlayer,AfterEffects
renders the effect after rendering all properties in the other layers. To apply an adjustment layer to some (but not all)
of the layers below it, you must either nest or precompose the adjustment layer with those layers.
Nesting or precomposing
Use either nesting or precomposing to change the rendering order while also applying an effect to continuously
rasterized or collapsed layers. To make an effect render after a transform property, apply the effect to the nested
composition instead of to the layer inside that composition.
See also
“To create a new adjustment layer” on page 152
“Organizing a project using nesting” on page 60
“To precompose layers” on page 133
To make a movie from a composition
1 Save the project, and then do one of the following:
• Select the composition in the Project panel, choose Composition > Make Movie, specify the name and location of
the output file, and then click Save.
• Choose Window > Render Queue, and then drag the composition you want to render from the Project panel to
the Render Queue panel. Default render settings and output module templates are assigned automatically.
2 Click the underlined setting to the right of the Render Settings heading to change the default render settings
template, or click the triangle to the right of the Render Settings heading to choose a render settings template.
3 Choose a Log type from the Log menu.
4 Click the underlined setting to the right of the Output Module heading to change the default output module
settingstemplate,orclickthetriangletotherightoftheOutputModuleheadingtochooseanoutputmodulesettings
template.
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