Subtitles of the Movie

Before rendering out our final composition, let's take a look at how we built this once again and think of some of the timesaving methods we used to create this comp. First of all, we were very smart by organizing everything into folders and then having a main comps area and leaving our main comp outside of the folders so we can always get back to that. Likewise, we can always click on its tabs. Now, pre-composing things is really a great way to keep control over your project so you can always go back at any time, make your changes and then bring it back to the main. But having everything in one area like so gives us only our main comps to look at in our light and our fader, as well as our background, instead of looking at everything that we built here in the main window. It could be quite a pain to do that. So now let's go ahead and make our final comp. I'm going to turn on the global blur, just to make sure it's on, but actually I'm going to turn that off because I don't want to slow things down any further. This is a big file and it could take a while to render. So I'm going to show you what I would do. Go to composition and I would choose add to render queue and I'll move this up a little bit. I would click here where it says output to and choose someplace like my Desktop and name it something that makes sense, like City Life final, click save and then choose a compression scheme or an output module. Mine is going to be a QuickTime movie, but you can choose from any of the stuff on the list here. And then I'm simply going to hit render and when it's all said and done, we'll have a QuickTime movie that we can see in full resolution. When you're working in After Effects, try to keep the work environment pretty fast and snappy. So I usually work at a lower resolution and even here, I keep this at like something like one-third or one-half just to speed things up when I'm actually building my comp. But now that we're all done, we'll go ahead and give it just a little bit more time to render and then we'll look at the final QuickTime movie. After Effects, by the way, can be used to pretty much animate anything. You can animate an entire cartoon. You can animate show openings. For example, when you watch your favorite sports team, you see the logos flying by and the names of the announcers and all these pictures. A lot of that's done in After Effects. It's an industry standard application for creating just the kind of thing we just did. You can do flying logos and glows and rain and special effects and lightening, all from within this one powerful application. So our render is almost done and in just a moment I'll open up the QuickTime player and we can grab some popcorn and some soda, speaking of which, I have pizza in the oven and that's going to go off any minute, and watch the final five-second animation. If you want to add sound effects to this, feel free to do so, add a soundtrack, add some more glows, whatever you'd like to do to this comp, or bring it into Premier Pro for Final Cut Pro and add it to some other project you might be working on. So we'll just give this a couple more seconds and we'll check out our final work. OK. Here we go. I'm going to open up the QuickTime player and I'll open the file on my Desktop, City Life final and press play and enjoy. Hope you had a good time working on this project.