Felt Tips demonstrates how to do a “chain render” in after effects where in this example, if you needed to do versioning on a render, you can render a part once and use it in all the other version renders – a pretty nifty trick!

Felt Tips’ After Effects Quick Tips. #3. Chain Rendering from Felt Tips on Vimeo.

Adobe After Effects tutorial. This quick tip is under 10 minutes long and shows you how to set up a chain render in After Effects – a technique that can potentially save hours of render time.

Quicktips are intended to be short and sweet insider workflow tips, cunning workarounds and cheeky little gems that other tutorials miss. They are intended to be digestible in your coffee break and usable straightaway.

Enjoy.

2 comments

  1. violenza

    Another method of doing this is using the “Import and Replace Usage” option in the output module. This keeps your comps/render que in tact, and in essence does the same trick. Having gone through the versioning nightmare more than once, this came in very handy.

  2. Great tip on chain rendering! And I was wondering if you would be willing to share more knowledge on multi-language rendering. Specifically what are the steps involved in getting foreign languages to appear in AE? if you’d be willing to email me directly it would be much appreciated…

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