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Using prerenders

Using prerenders - After Effects Tutorial

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Using prerenders

- [Instructor] Often when we have built up a heavy composition, it's helpful to create pre-renders to speed up our work. Generally if we have an element that we are using over and over again as a pre-comp or we know that a certain section of our shot is locked and not going to change, then we can create what's called a pre-render. The idea here is that by creating a render of these elements we're asking After Effects to calculate less and speed up our work flow by reading those elements off of our hard drive instead. So here in this composition, I've got some fire that I've introduced and it's a pre-comp that I'm using. I've got four instances of it here and you can see as I'm previewing it's chugging along and of course there's other elements in this scene that are contributing to the longer preview time. However, if I wanted to populate more of the scene with all this fire, generally I'm looking for redundancies or anything that I can do to help out my speed here. So what we can do…

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