ABSTRACT
After Effects is very flexible in allowing to set up and override certain parameters when the user render, as well as to create multiple files with different aspect ratios and file formats from the same render pass. After Effects treats rendering a movie as a two-step process: Calculate an image, and then decide how to save it to disk. These two steps are presented to the user as two different sets of options for each comp in the Render Queue: Render Settings and Output Modules. The chapter discusses the general difference between rendering a still image, a movie, and a RAM Preview. After Effects can be render to any of a number of formats, which can be self-contained movies or a sequence of still images, one for each frame. A crucial concept about rendering in After Effects is that a comp’s set frame rate can be overridden at render time by the value chosen here in Render Settings.
