movA + movB = movC (adding videos to save rendertimes)

[payton]

if you own quicktime pro and work with movs its easy to do.

you can copy and paste video or audio tracks from one quicktime to another. then you will have the choice to save the edit as a qtmovie that just links to the sources (so you should not delete them) or save it as a new file (without reencoding!).

copying is easy to do by strg+a and strg+v (maybe first triming it). if you want to add an audio track dont use strg+v, but "add to movie".

good luck,
payton

[Mylenium]

Is there a way to do this either through afx of a third-party plug-in or program?

Our studio makes TVCs for several areas of Australia and we end up rendering them seperately even when Clapper and EndTags are the only difference. Most of the rendering time gets consumed by the main contents of the ad anyway and its always rendering the same thing over which is pointless really.

If you have some money, you can easily automate this process using Cleaner, ProCoder and some other tools - just set up a rule (based on filenames) and they will non-destructively merge your files.

Mylenium

[beenyweenies]

Is there a way to do this either through afx of a third-party plug-in or program?

Our studio makes TVCs for several areas of Australia and we end up rendering them seperately even when Clapper and EndTags are the only difference. Most of the rendering time gets consumed by the main contents of the ad anyway and its always rendering the same thing over which is pointless really.

The options mentioned above are a good bet, but another option is to pre-render the main content to an uncompressed format, import the rendered file back into your AE projects, then create a new "master output" comp in which you place precomps of your head and tail elements bookending the pre-rendered rendered content.. I just did this for an HD localization project with a series of 6 language versions. It saved me over 2 hours per final render since the head/tail was extremely render heavy, and there was not a drop of perceivable quality difference.

[forflowers]

Thanks for the replies. I'll deffinately look into these. It's all i wanted to know.
Cheers
-nino

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