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Collecting files

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- Now, one thing that can really slow down your rendering is needing to access a bunch of different files from a bunch of different places. Maybe you pulled a little bit from here, and something from there, and something off of Thumb Drive, and over the network, and maybe Dropbox. And that's great, but at the end of the day, when it comes time to do a real render, if After Effects has to look in all of those places, it can really slow things down. Particularly if network speed is a factor, or internet connection. So the best option here is to collect the files to one location, so they're easy to access. Preferably something like your local drive, an SSD, or direct attach storage. Here's how you do it. In After Effects, simply choose: File, Dependencies, Collect Files. This first wants to save the project. Once that's done, you have some options here. What do you want it to collect? Everything? Just what's used in the compositions? Or only what's in the queued compositions? This could…

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