Prepare After effects project
The result of rendering depends on the correct setting of the project file. To avoid mistakes and unnecessary expenses, carefully read the recommendations for each software that you used for your project. For the result of rendering the project without setting "Lacrimas Farm" is not responsible. Be sure to let us know if your software version differs from the one installed on the farm:
Naming and project structure
All project files and folders must be named in Latin, without special characters and without spaces.
Use_as_delimiter
_underscore.
Correct name:
Project_Name_Cam_01.aep
Project structure:
Use_as_delimiter
_underscore.
Correct name:
Project_Name_Cam_01.aep
Project structure:
Project team
Send to the reder queue only those scenes that need to be rendered, clean up the rest in the render queue
a) check which fonts you used in the project, and copy them manually to a separate folder, naming it Fonts
c) make a collection for the selected compositions.
An AE project can contain dozens of compositions, of which one or two are required to render. In order not to save, and then upload unnecessary gigabytes to the server, you need to understand what compositions you want to "collect" and before this procedure, select them in the Project panel
Once the desired compositions are selected, we proceed directly to the creation of the collection of our project.
a) check which fonts you used in the project, and copy them manually to a separate folder, naming it Fonts
c) make a collection for the selected compositions.
An AE project can contain dozens of compositions, of which one or two are required to render. In order not to save, and then upload unnecessary gigabytes to the server, you need to understand what compositions you want to "collect" and before this procedure, select them in the Project panel
Once the desired compositions are selected, we proceed directly to the creation of the collection of our project.
Project team
select the File main menu section, the Dependencies section and select the Collect Files command
In this window, we are interested in 2 points
- at the bottom left you can see the size that the collection folder will have
- at the top you need to set the mode For Selected Comps
set "For selected compositions" in this case, we will not upload unnecessary data to the farm, which positively affects the speed of obtaining material and reduces possible errors when rendering. Press the Collect button and specify the folder where our project will be copied to send to the farm.
Pay attention - AE assigns Folder at the end - it's better to leave it as it is - by this addition it is usually immediately clear that this is an AE project collection.
In this window, we are interested in 2 points
- at the bottom left you can see the size that the collection folder will have
- at the top you need to set the mode For Selected Comps
set "For selected compositions" in this case, we will not upload unnecessary data to the farm, which positively affects the speed of obtaining material and reduces possible errors when rendering. Press the Collect button and specify the folder where our project will be copied to send to the farm.
Pay attention - AE assigns Folder at the end - it's better to leave it as it is - by this addition it is usually immediately clear that this is an AE project collection.
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