ABSTRACT
After Effects features a variety of settings that control importing files, opening multiple compositions, previewing audio, the appearance and interactivity of the program, plus numerous other details. This chapter gives an overview of what these settings mean and what they do, and highlights those settings that we find aid our efficiency. The Render Settings and Output Module templates are also saved in the Preferences file. Some audio and video cards have multiple audio outputs. The user can use this dialog to determine which outputs After Effects routes its previews to. During RAM Previews, as memory starts to fill up, the background processes will “go quiet” and release their RAM. The main foreground copy will then continue rendering frames until memory is exhausted or all of the preview frames have been rendered.
