43 Advanced Rendering

Network rendering and project management features

When projects get big, you need help. That help may come in the form of cleaning up your project by removing duplicate or unused sources. Or stripping out everything except what is needed for selected comps so you can pass a portion of your project onto another artist. Or collecting all of your source footage to one folder for backup or transport. Or even enlisting the aid of multiple copies of After Effects to help you render a particularly intensive comp.

After Effects can provide all of these forms of help, and we’ll review them in this chapter. We’re going to start with general file management issues, then proceed to the ability to distribute a render across processors ...

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