ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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Reduce Project Removes all unused footage items and compositions from the collected files when the following
options are chosen in the Collect Source Files pop-up menu: For All Comps, For Selected Comps, and For Queued
Comps.
Change Render Output To Usetoredirecttheoutputmodulestorenderfilestoanamedfolderinthecollectedfiles
folder. This option ensures that you have access to your rendered files when you’re rendering the project from
another system. Note that the rendering status must be valid (Queued, Unqueued, or Will Continue) for the output
modules to render files to this folder.
Enable ‘Watch Folder’ Render (Pro only) 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 also includes a render control file called
[project name]_RCF.txt, which signals to watching systems that the project is available for rendering. After Effects
and any installed render engines can then render the project together across a network. (See “To set up watch-folder
rendering (Pro only)” on page 628.)
Maximum Number Of Machines (Pro only) 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.
Note: Ifrenderingtimeisunusuallyslow,youmayhavesetMaximumNumberOfMachinestoohigh,andthenetwork
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.
To gather files for rendering or archiving
1 Choose File > Collect Files.
2 In the Collect Files dialog box, choose an appropriate option for Collect Source Files.
3 Select appropriate options, as needed. (See “Collecting files in one location” on page 598.)
4 To add your own information to the report that will be generated, click Comments, type your notes, and click OK.
The comments appear at the end of the report.
5 Click Collect. Name the folder and specify a location for your collected files.
The options for Collect Source Files include the following:
All Collects all footage files, including unused footage and proxies.
For All Comps Collects all footage files and proxies used in any project compositions.
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 valid rendering status in the Render Queue panel.
None Copies the project to a new location without collecting any source footage.
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 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 (Professional edition only).
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