Rendering - After Effects Tutorial

Previewing only happens inside After Effects. Eventually you want to get your composition out of After Effects and into other programs, like an editing system, or web page design software. To do that, you need to go to Composition and select Make Movie. That says, again, take my current forward composition--the one that has the yellow outline around it--and let's go render that to disk. The shortcut for making movie is Command+M on Mac, Ctrl+M on Windows. This will open up to Render Queue. You can indeed queue up multiple compositions and have them render one after another automatically. The rendering process in After Effects has two steps: First it has to render their frame, calculate everything involved in that one frame at the current time and save it in memory. The second step is to take that frame in memory and output it, save it to disk. That's why you see two different items appear in the Render Queue, even though you queued up only one composition to render. Both of these have…