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Add compositions to the Render Queue

Add compositions to the Render Queue - After Effects Tutorial

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Add compositions to the Render Queue

- [Instructor] The last step in our compositing phase is outputting our shot to disk. After effects has a versatile tool called the Render Queue, where we can define what kind of files should be created and how it should be rendered. Let's see how the main portions of this work. Here's one composition that we would like to render out to disk, as well as a second one, with just the mask by itself. And I'd like to render this out with an alpha channel. So I can composite this further or have the option to change this out later on as an element. Let's go ahead and add this to the Render Queue. Now you can do this one of two ways. Come over here to Window, Render Queue, and the Render Queue window will pop up and you can click and drag one or more compositions from your project window into the Render Queue. Alternately, if you're in the composition itself, you can always come up to composition, add to Render Queue and add it that…

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