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Dragging footage to the render queue


    In After Effects 5.5, you can simultaneously create a composition from source footage and immediately prepare that footage for rendering. You do this by dragging source footage from the Project window to the render queue. This procedure is useful if you want to change some aspect of the source footage's format, such as frame rate or compression method, and have that rendered version available to work with as (for example) a replacement for the original source.

To both render source footage from the Project window and create a composition:

  1. Choose Window > Render Queue.
  2. Select one or more source footage items that you want to render and drag them from the Project window to the render queue. This creates both a new render queue item and a new composition for each source footage item.
  3. Adjust the pertinent render settings and postrender actions and render the footage. (For more information on adjusting render settings, see Changing render settings and Changing output module settings. For more information on setting postrender actions, see Using postrender actions in the render queue).