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Rendering and Exporting
Last updated 12/12/2014
Start in watch-folder mode
Watch-folder mode applies only to rendering from a folder on your local computer.
• To start After Effects in watch-folder mode automatically, save a project with the filename Watch This Folder.aep.
After Effects watches the folder containing the project if you open that project.
• To start After Effects in watch-folder mode when you start your computer, create a shortcut (Windows) or alias (Mac
OS) to the Watch This Folder.aep project and move it to your Startup folder (Windows) or your Startup Items folder
(Mac OS). After Effects watches the folder containing the project if you open that project.
• (Windows only) To start After Effects in watch-folder mode from the command line, choose Start > Run, and then
enter the following, modifying the application path to the exact name of the folder in which you installed After
Effects, and replacing C:\[temp] with the path to your watch folder: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects
CC\Support Files\afterfx.exe" -wf C:\[temp]
To start the After Effects render engine rather than the full version of After Effects, use the -re option with the command.
Note: You can also use this command line in batch files.
Render a still-image sequence with multiple computers
Although the preferred method of rendering for multiple computers is using the Watch Folder feature, you can also use
multiple computers and multiple copies of After Effects to render a composition across a network. You can use multiple
computers to render only still-image sequences; you cannot use multiple computers to render a single movie.
When you render a still-image sequence with multiple computers, rendering in each copy of After Effects starts at
approximately the same time. By specifying that each copy skip existing frames or frames in progress, multiple
computers can render the project simultaneously, writing the still-image sequence to a single folder.
You can use any number of computers for rendering; in general, the more computers, the faster the rendering. However,
if too many computers are used across a busy network, network traffic may slow down the entire process. You can detect
network slowdown by observing the time spent in the Compressing & Writing stage in the Current Render section of
the Render Queue panel.
Note: Adobe does not provide technical support for general network configuration; consult your network administrator.
Aharon Rabinowitz provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that goes through and explains the steps for
rendering a still-image sequence with multiple computers.
1 Install After Effects on each computer that will be used to render the project. Make sure that you have the same fonts
installed on each computer.
Note: Do not share plug-ins across a network. Make sure that you have a copy of the plug-ins folder on each computer
that is running After Effects. When using third-party plug-ins, also be sure that the same plug-ins are available on all
computers and that you have sufficient licenses for the plug-ins.
2 Open the project on one computer, select the composition, and then choose Composition > Add To Render Queue.
3 Specify a sequence format in the Output Module area, and specify a folder in the Output To area. This folder must
be available for all the computers that are rendering.
4 In the Render Queue panel, select Skip Existing Files in the Render Settings section so that multiple computers do
not render the same frames. Do not use multiple output modules for one render item when using Skip Existing Files.
5 Save the project on the computer where you opened it in step 2.
6 On each computer that will be rendering, open and save the project. Saving the project ensures that After Effects
records the new relative paths to each computer in the following step.
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