Still works that way in 5.5.
What is so tedious is creating the work area, then having to make a custom selection. I'm breaking down about one hundred clips out of maybe 12 comps. Making sure I select the Custom option each time is a real pain. It would be so much easier if I could select a piece of the clip and have it stick without going through the extra 4 clicks – that is when I remember to do it. Cause if I forget, and I do sometimes, it's a really big pain to go back and figure out what I screwed up.
Jonathan
On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:54 AM, Chris Zwar wrote: FWIW this process has been made more tedious by the way that selecting 'custom' in the render settings doesn't set the default values to the work area. It used to, I think it changed with CS 5.
I have previously requested that Adobe revert back to the way it used to work, so that you could set a work area, add to render queue, then change 'work area' to 'custom' in the render settings dialogue and the work area in and out values would be copied across. Then you could change the work area, add to render queue, change it to 'custom' and continue on. I'm still using CS 5, and when you select 'custom' it defaults to in and out points of 0 and the comp length respectively.
Has this been fixed with CS 5.5? If not, then it's something I will request again. I know that CS 5 was a major upgrade, but it's little changes like that that can really impact on your daily workflow.
-Chris
On 13/03/2012, at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Penzner wrote: Sounds like a good approach. Maybe someone will pick up on the idea. Thanks again, Phil.
And thanks for the sympathy, tt.
Jonathan
On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Phil Spitler wrote: It would probably be easy enough to create a script that adds the current comp to the render queue but fills the custom timespan based on the current work area.
This would allow multiple renders from the same comp.
Phil
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that fix seem worse than the problem - it would be nice if there was a setting where the work area would stick, I am constantly hitting the render settings and hitting the custom and then of course your forget one and there is a lot of going back and forth - Jonathan, I feel your pain.
tt
From: "Phil Spitler" < phil@bonfirelabs.com> To: "After Effects Mail List" < AE-List@media-motion.tv> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:49:49 PM Subject: Re: [AE] Driving me nuts I just dupe the render comp a bunch of time before adding to the queue
Phil
Phil Spitler | Associate Creative Director | Bonfire Labs | t : 415.394.8200 | c : 415.571.3139 | Bonfirelabs.comOn Mar 12, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Jonathan Penzner wrote: Ok, I'll admit with a little more presence of mind I could avoid this, but this is driving me nuts.
I have many comps that 'm breaking up into discreet renders. Unless in the Render Settings I remember to make the work area a Custom Setting, the work area to render changes as I change the work area itself. Now I know this makes sense doe many situations. I get that this is a valuable idea. But it almost never matches how I work.
As I say, I know this is me, but I wish there were a switch I could throw that would make the work area stick when I set it in the render.
Perhaps there is. Anyone know of such a thing in the prefs or somewhere else?
Many thanks,
Jonathan
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