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Saving RAM previews

Saving RAM previews - After Effects Tutorial

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Saving RAM previews

- Now let's say you've gone through a composition and you've successfully RAM previewed it. Of course, if you're using the performance disk cache, those frames can be stored on your hard drive for easy access, but that can be temporary. Now, generally speaking, if the client walks back in, you've got enough disk space, when you open the project up it'll come back to life. But what happens if you want to export this to share it with someone? Well fortunately, it's easy to take something that's been RAM previewed and save it to disk a little bit more permanently. Let me show you how we can actually save the file out. Now let's say you've RAM previewed something, and you want to store that RAM preview to save it with others. There are a few ways to take advantage of this. In After Effects, there is a command called Save Current Preview, however, this feature has not yet been fully implemented by the After Effects team. This is an old feature that's currently disabled, but for some…

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