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So, you're ready to output your After Effects composites into another format, such as QuickTime or Flash Video or even to Photoshop. How does one do that exactly? Well, it's pretty easy and you'll see that when we do this, we'll have more than one choice when it comes to rendering multiple files at the same time. By the way, rendering is simply another word for, I guess, baking something. Say you have a cake; you have your eggs, you have your flour, you have all your sugar and you put everything into a bowl. You mix all the ingredients together and what you get out of the oven, and once you put the frosting on there, is a finished product. In After Effects, think of the ingredients as your special effects. You have your type, you have your rain, you have your explosions, you have your original footage. Once you have all that in place, when you render it, you're given a finished file. So that's really all rendering means. It's giving you a finished product based on all the things that you told After Effects to add to your file. So having said all that, let's go to the composition menu and we're going to choose add to render queue. It will take this file and give us this new area down here called the render queue. Let me go ahead and push this up. As we can see, we're given a render message area where we can see what's going on with our render. We have a render button when we're ready to actually tell After Effects to go ahead and do everything we told it to do, based on the parameters down here and we have some settings that we have control over. For example, let me go ahead and twirl some of these down first of all. We have the spider approach, which is the name of this movie and we can choose the settings. We can choose best settings, current settings, draft, for when you want to just get a quick preview, DV settings or custom. So I'm going to leave it at best settings. What about the output module? This means how do you want this file presented to you once it's done? So in this case, I have QuickTime selected, but I can change this if I click on the arrow and choose something else, such as custom, a Photoshop file, an animated GIF or anything. But I can always click on the name of the output module itself and change the parameters to a different format. And as you can see, there are quite a few, from Blue Ray to an if sequence, a JPG sequence and peg2 for DVD, all kinds of great things in here, even WAV sequences, target sequences and more. So I'll leave it on QuickTime for now. We can also change the video output, the format options and tons and tons more. So you have a lot of control. We can also choose to have another version of this file added to the queue, so we don't have to have just one QuickTime movie; we can do something else. So what I can do is go to composition and add another output module. Another output module gives me the ability to choose another setting, so I can go to another output module and I can choose Photoshop, for example, and I can choose the output module as far as how I want it to go out, once again, as far as loss is compression, choose a format, I can even choose Adobe Flash Video and once I'm happy with all that, I have all of those different settings and when I click render, After Effects will give me the result that I based in this list here. So I'm going to go ahead and hit render, but we're not going to wait for it because it can take quite some time, but I do want you to take a look at what's going to happen once I do this here as well. I can also twirl down this little window and see more information. So I'll hit render and I'll let it go for a little while so you can see what's going to happen and then I'll stop. But once it's done, everything that I asked for will be on my Desktop or where I specified. Speaking of which, let me just tell you by the way where to choose where it's going to save. The output to section, you click on output to and you can choose the Computer Name or you can choose a location and when you choose Computer Name, it's going to pretty much go through your Desktop or you can choose custom and determine where it's going to go as well. So that's a pretty good way to determine exactly where it's going to go on your computer. So, I'm going to click render and now I can look at the information. It's rendering one of two, it's using this much RAM, it tells me when the render was started, the elapsed time and where it's going to go. So this is my hard drive, it's going there and it's rendering the file. It's giving me an estimated time and I can watch the actual render as it happens. So it's working currently on the first output module of two. See? This is number one and this is number two. You can add as many modules as you need to render out your file to multiple formats. Quite handy when you want to take the same file and have it for the web, have it for Blue Ray and have it for every kind of format imaginable. So that's the first file, which is done and now it's working on two. So once again, when you want to render, go to composition, choose to add the comp to the queue down here and when you want to add more output modules, choose it from this list.