ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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Working with overflow volumes and segments
You can set the Output preferences to make After Effects render to up to five different disk volumes and according
to when the remaining hard disk space reaches a certain limit. These options are useful when your rendered output
exceeds the amount of available hard disk space. After Effects can also render sequences and movie files into
segments that are limited to a specified number of files or by file size.
A situation in which After Effects reaches a disk space limit while rendering a composition is called an overflow.
Specify this limit for Minimum Diskspace Before Overflowing in the Output Preferences dialog box. When After
Effects overflows a volume, the resulting files go into a folder on the root of the next volume in the After Effects
Overflows list. You can specify multiple volumes to which rendered compositions can be directed. By doing so, each
time a volume fills up, After Effects tries the next volume on the Preferences list.
Note: It is important to look at the log file after rendering; the log file reports when a render overflows.
To specify overflow settings
1
Choose Edit > Preferences > Output (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > Output (Mac OS).
2 To set overflow volumes, choose the volumes you want from the Volume menus under Overflow Volumes.
3 Specify the minimum number of megabytes left on your volume before overflowing to the next volume in the
Minimum Diskspace Before Overflowing text box, and then click OK.
To specify segment settings
You can specify a size for your output so that After Effects renders files in segments even if overflow isn’t necessary.
You may want to segment files if you work with applications that restrict the size of imported files. In addition, if
After Effects reaches a disk space limit and overflows across volumes, your output is distributed to files of a prede-
termined size.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Output (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > Output (Mac OS).
2 To specify segment sizes for your output, do any of the following and then click OK:
• Select Segment Sequences At, and then enter a number for the maximum number of files each folder should
contain.
• Select Segment Movie, and then enter a number for the maximum size in kilobytes for each movie segment.
To remove clicks or pops from rendered MP3 output, set the Audio Block Duration in Output preferences to longer
than the length of the output movie.
Exporting project information to other Adobe
applications
To export an After Effects project to Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows only)
You can export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project without rendering.
When you export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project, Adobe Premiere Pro uses the settings
from the first composition in the After Effects project for all subsequent sequences. Keyframes, effects, and other
properties are converted in the same way as when you paste an After Effects layer into an Adobe Premiere Pro
sequence.
1 Choose File > Export > Adobe Premiere Pro Project.
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