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Pre-render

Pre-render - After Effects Tutorial

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Pre-render

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- [Narrator] Let's go ahead and open the composition named 5.2 Pre-render. Open this folder, open the compositions folder, and there it is double click it. Sometimes a composition can take a long, long time to render. So if you have a particular composition that has been nested, and what that means, is a composition inside of another composition, you can pre-render it. Let's go ahead and select all of these layers and pre-composed them. So with all of the layers selected, just choose layer and then pre-compose. In here, make sure that the move all attributes into the new composition is selected and now let's name it authentic drones, pre-comp. Now we can click, okay. Notice that now, instead of having all the separate layers, we only have one and I'm going to make this a little bit wider so that we can read the name and it's indeed the authentic drones pre-comp. Let's go ahead and press the letter S for scale, and…

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