Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, 5th Edition

42 Render Queue

The Render Queue is where you set up and manage the creation of your final work

To create a movie or still image from your animations and arrangements, you have to render a file. After Effects is very flexible in allowing you to set up and override certain parameters when you render, as well as to create multiple files with different aspect ratios and file formats from the same render pass. You can also create and save templates of these render and output settings.

Internally, After Effects treats rendering a movie as a two-step process: Calculate an image, 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 ...