ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how prerendering complex comps can speed up the user workflow and using proxies for footage and comps can streamline that process further. Prerendering is the practice of creating a movie or still of an intermediate composition, or one that the user intend to reuse as an element. If the user is creating field rendered materials, consider rendering proxies at double the frame rate. When a proxy is assigned to a footage item or comp, it is as if the user replaced that item. The exception is that low-res proxies will be scaled to the original dimensions of the item they are standing in for. The user can prerender footage proxies in After Effects or another program, taking care that they are the same length as the original movie. The original footage would be used during final rendering.
