Phil,

The sequence is already rendered..  Client keeps making changes to certain stuff. It takes forever to render so I'm trying to cut my amount down. Would hate to have to go in and remove frames over and over for every change we make.

Lloyd,

That script would be nice,  but the problem is not the setup,  it's that AE thinks I'm rendering to the same file and won't allow it,  even though it's a sequence with file numbers appended.

Jim,  that's sort of the only alternative,  which is ok,  except my co-working client is grabbing frames as soon as they are rendered to use in his work. Late game rush tactics.

It surprises me that this isn't possible in AE.  3d programs have had this option for a long time. It would be nice to just be able to setup a comma separated list like C4D. Like:

200-400, 352-390, 512, 735-800

I know it's not often this comes up for some people,  but I had just figured it was a given that people may need to render different ranges of the same comp with the same file name per frame.

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
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On Dec 6, 2013 3:11 PM, "Lloyd Alvarez" <lists@aescripts.com> wrote:

Hey Greg,

You can use this: http://aescripts.com/queue-work-area

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Greg Balint <delrazoraelist@gmail.com> wrote:

It's a sequence. So it's the names of the rendered files that are needing to be all the same. Having them come from different comps won't solve the rendering to same name problem. For some reason ae doesn't realize that it will be using frame numbers at the end of each file so it won't be overwriting the same files.

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/
   

On Dec 6, 2013 3:03 PM, "Michael Kedor" <mikedor@gmail.com> wrote:

Why not make duplicates of your composition and render each "work area" with the appropriate frame range for each composition?

MK

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Greg Balint <delrazoraelist@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone know how I could select certain frame ranges across a long comp and set them all up in a render queue? As a PNG sequence.

What I mean is,  I need to render frames 272-500 and frames 762-914 and then 1543-1700.

I figured multiple entries in the render queue would be fine,  but AE doesn't like having multiple render items with same names (even if they will have different frame numbers appended to them)

I couldn't even just deactivate the other ones. I had to remove them completely for my first range to start rendering.

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/