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Export in After Effects

By Preeti PrajapatiPreeti Prajapati

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Export in After Effects

Introduction to Export in After Effects

Adobe After Effect software is generally used for manipulating our work related to videography and photography. It also helps in providing animation to our project for making it more and more effective for viewers. Export means saving our work in an appropriate file format at the desired location. In Adobe After Effect software, we use Export for the same work that is saving our project in our required file format for presenting it in the real world. Export is a basic and important part of After Effect because we need it to use it in every project.

Exporting Projects in Adobe After Effects

Figuring out how to export your first After Effects project can be difficult. Here’s a quick guide on how to get started, and you will also learn how to export any project in the desired format and desired location.

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We have a different type of section here for making our working easy. We have a small tool panel at the top of the work area, a Project Window at the left corner of the work area, a Layer section at the lower-left corner, a Timeline section at the bottom and a Composition window in the middle of the work area. First of all, we will make a simple animation and learn how to Export this animation for saving it in the desired format.

Export in After Effects 1 User Interface

  • First of all, we will take a New Composition. For taking New Composition, click on the New Composition tab, which is present in the Composition window area.

Export in After Effects 2 Composition Window Area

  • Or click on Create a new Composition tab which is present on the project window of this software.

Export in After Effects 3 New Composition

  • The composition Setting dialog box will open; choose your desired setting for your composition. Here I will choose the default setting for my composition and press on the OK tab of this dialog box to apply your composition setting.

Export in After Effects 4 Composition Setting Dialog

  • Take a circle command from the tool panel by clicking on the circle icon, which is present in the drop-down list of rectangle tools, now draw a circle.

Export in After Effects 5 Draw a Circle

  • Go to align command at the right side of the work area, to align the circle at the center of the composition, press the Ctrl+Alt+Home key and then the Ctrl+Home key on the keyboard.

Export in After Effects 6 Align Command

  • Now we will animate this circle, so click on the shape layer at the layer section of this software and click on the small arrow button of the shape layer’s transform property; now, sub-properties of the transform property will open.

Animate Circle

  • We will animate the circle’s scale and position property, first click on the clock icon of the scale property to generate the start key for the animate scale property.

Animate Scale and Position

  • Now I will make the scale property value to zero percent so that the circle becomes invisible to me at the starting keyframe.

Value of Scale Property

  • Now I will set the keyframe play head at 2 sec; you can set it according to you.

Key frame Play Head

  • And make the value of the scale property to 100%.

Value of Scale Property

  • Now drag the keyframe play head at the starting point to set other property animation and click on the clock icon of the position property of circle to generate a start keyframe for it.

Key Frame Play Head

  • Now I will place the circle at the top position in my composition.

Place the Circle

  • Drag the keyframe play head at the same time of the end key of scale property of the circle and place the circle out of the composition.

Scale Property of Circle

  • Now you can see the animation by pressing the spacebar key or press the Play button from the Preview option on the right side.

Animation by Pressing Space

Animation by Pressing Space - 2

  • Now we will export this animation. For exporting, click on the Composition tab at the top of the work area and click on Add to Render Queue option of the drop-down list.

Exporting Animation

  • Click on the Best tab of the Render settings option in the layers section, a dialog box will open.

Render Settings Option

  • Choose Best as the Quality and Full as a resolution from this dialog box for your project’s best rendering. You can set other settings according to you; press on the OK tab of this dialog box to apply your project’s settings.

Rendering Project

  • Now click on the Lossless option of the Output module option in the layer section a dialog box will open; we can set the file format of our project from here.

Lossless Option

  • You can choose any format from here I will choose the AVI format for exporting my project; you can set other settings according to you. Press on the OK tab.

AVI - Exporting Project

  • Now click on the Not yet specified option of the Output To tab – to name your project –

Output To Tab

  • A dialog box will open name with Output Movie To– choose the location where you want to save it and name your project – I will name it as Circle motion – click on the save button of this dialog box to save it –

Output Movie To

  • Now click on the Render tab at the right corner of the working area to render your animation –

Rendering Animation

  • It will take some time – Render time will depend on the size of your animation or project – size means the number of layers, type of animation used in your project and many more things –

Rendering in Animation

  • Now your project is ready in your desired format and at desired location –

Project Completed

  • And you can see your animation by play it on any video player –

Project video Preview

Conclusion

Here you learned about the Export command of Adobe After Effect Software with me, and after this tutorial, you can easily save your project in the appropriate format and make it compatible for your real purpose. Now you have full command of Adobe After Effect software after this tutorial because you can actually make your project a useable thing with the export command.

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