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Clearing existing renders to facilitate re-rendering

Clearing existing renders to facilitate re-rendering - Media Composer Tutorial

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Clearing existing renders to facilitate re-rendering

- [Instructor] Knowing that media composer will use your precomputes, that's the consequences of rendering for the purposes of output. There are a number of occasions where you'll want to remake those precomputes. For example, if you change your render settings to produce a different quality, or if you change your project format. And for that matter, if you change this option at the bottom of the timeline window, the video quality menu. Media composer can't always know if it should recreate those precompute files. So you can help the process by removing existing precomputes, and then manually rendering again. It's usually worthwhile having rendered in the timeline window rather than waiting until exporting so that you can avoid duplicating the time, duplicating the weight while media composer exports, and renders at that time. To remove your existing precomputes, you need to specify a region in the same way that…

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