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Open multiple After Effects instances

Open multiple After Effects instances - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Weekly

Open multiple After Effects instances

- Hello and welcome to another AE Weekly Tip. This time I'm going to show you how to render and work at the same time. So, let's say that I'm starting to render this project using After Effects Render Queue, and in the middle of the render someone asks me to fix another project. Well, in this case I have a couple of options. I can stop the current render, and then After Effects will save what it already created, and offer me the option to continue later, which means that I'll need to marry those clips assuming that I'm rendering to a movie file. Another option is to use Adobe Media Encoder for rendering, and this means that you need to think about it before you start the render. But, many users don't like it due to the fact that it usually duplicates your project and may also render slower in some cases. Instead of those options, there's another way to work. Assuming that you have a decent computer, you can actually…

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