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Re-rendering

Re-rendering - After Effects Tutorial

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Re-rendering

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- Let's talk for a moment about rerendering. Let's say you rendered out something, and you realize that something was a little bit wrong. Maybe there was a typo, or you had a mistake in it, or you didn't render out the full file. Well, it's possible to render out a file to swap it's position with the old file. Normally, when you rerender, what happens is, is it automatically enumerates the file with a name. But let me show you what's possible here. Let's optimize the render queue. And you see we have this file here, and it was outputting to text.movie. Well, if I press CTRL+d for duplicate, you'll see that it's going to make a new file called text_1. Well, that's a problem because what that means is that I'm going to still have a movie called text and one called text_1. And maybe there was a spelling mistake that I just meant to blow away the file and replace it with something new. So, if I know for a fact that I just want to take a file, and replace it with a new file, and get rid of…

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