10 Ways to Get Faster in After Effects | Workflow Tips & Techniques
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In this quick and simple tutorial, I'll be sharing my top 10 methods to speed up your workflow in After Effects. These tips and techniques will not only make your project more organized, but also make you more efficient. This tutorial is suitable for beginner-intermediate users. Please leave a comment if you'd like me to explain anything I skimmed over. Don't forget to tell me what you'd like to see next in my video!
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this guy is so underrated
Haha, thank you so much! :)
Nahh he’s a legend. He’s not underrated
by far the best tutorial for faster workflow i've ever seen! thanks
A small addition to the mini-flowchart at 3:43:
Hit Shift + ESC to go back and forth between two comps
Amazing Tip! I didn't know that :D Thanks for sharing
@@BenMarriott works for chrome as well for it's task managem btw hahaha
You are my creative angel from down under! Thank you, so much gratitude for who you are Ben💖
Never knew you could set a 'template' project to load and even get rid of that dumb load screen. That really is a great tip! Cheers.
As usual, nice knowledge transmission! Thanks mate!!
Thank you Ben!!
Quality tips. I need to set up my workspace
So helpful! Love this sort of thing.
Thank you so much, Ben!👍 You definitely deserve 10 millions subscribers!!!🤗
Thank you guy! I love your videos!
You are the greatest!
thank you very much for this video!
Awesome tips man!
This is great! Thank you!
Thank you Ben for these great tips!! :)
Digging these more general tips. It's always really fruitful to take a peek into a more experienced mindset.
Thanks so much :) so glad you found it useful. I always hesitate with what to include in these videos. I jump back and forth between - It this too obvious? but what if someone doesn't know it?
Azzzfaaaaaaaaa
Very useful, a lot of thanks Ben
Your videos are really helpful.
thanks for the template:) and the tips ofc!
Thanks for giving me motivation to get busy animating
omg this video is a lifesaver
The mini flow is a major key! And I wish there was a similar feature in premiere with nested clips
You are fantastic! Thank you! :)
Mini flowchart is mental! So useful can't believe I didn't use it before!
Great tips Ben!
Instead of nr.4 prerender, I prefer to create a proxy for the render intensive comp (make sure to set up a high quality proxy setting -and switch on use proxies for the final render), I find it cleaner as I don't add layers to the comp that I then have to enable/disable. If you want to go back in and make adjustments just disable the proxy checkbox! Loving your tutorials btw
A m a z i n g !
Thanks man🕺🕺
Thanks lot man
Thank you!
I always thought Ben had a million subscribers. Ben’s so amazing
great great video!! keep it up
Hi Ben! Thanks so much for the awesome tutorials :) Quick question, I noticed you render out of After Effects itself, would you recommend this over using Media Encoder? I was always under the assumption that ME was faster. Thanks!
Maybe my favourite video of yours man! I'm about to be so productive. Hat's off to you!
Thank you so much man, go for it! :)
I have just started my job in an ad agency where they use AE Only! They agreed to hire me as I know but of editing and almost limited amounts of experience in after effects. I am very slow at it but I guess this video will help me somewhere, thanks Ben!
I really appreciate all your videos! Would love to see a few tutorials on how you tackle projects when you are asked to design it. Like what is your thinking behind a design and where do you find your inspiration from. How do you develop a style and so on... anyway thanks for all the tips this year, you rock!
Thanks so much! I definitely want to do more design related videos next year :)
Awesome! Really looking forward to it :)
i call him the *NOISE GUY* ; great man.
Very good tips
I agree with #11 to an extent but it's worth noting that by building everything in AE you have the option to set a single control layer for global color adjustments or other parameters. Though this is generally only an issue for larger projects/sequences or if you aren't certain on a color palette yet.
so good
Thanks for all the tips! you're definitely my go-to After Effects guru :)
Wow, thanks! :)
justin mcclure website is amazing!
and you Ben Marriott - is the king of the motions tutorials
Thank you so much, Tony！ :)
...I use the start screen all the time. It's rare that I'm only going in to a projects once, so seeing that top 5-10 most recent ones I've worked on and being able to open it with a click seems beneficial.
Great video, any tips on helping with layout and alignment? Thank you
Thanks
FX console is the greatest AE plug in ever.
I should have downloaded it sooner, I'm never opening Effects & Presets panel again! xD
Hey Ben thanks for the tips! At 1:17, what's the name of the plugin you are talking about please?
I have been a subscriber to you since you had like 25k subs.
Seeing you now with more than 100k subs makes me happy!
Because YOU deserve it!
I mean, I am not even a motion graphic designer, but I am saving your videos so if I needed them (which I know I will if I joined the motion graphic stuff)
So thank you for your hard work and for making tutorials very clear.
English isn't my mother language so it's hard to understand English accents, not to mention you are Australian(I think), but still, I understand every word you say because:
You speak slowly
Don't use fancy words
Always setting examples
Which I really appreciate.
Anyways, I REALLY wish the best for you.
Love from Yemen (an Arabic country)
Thank you so much for such a lovely, thoughtful and sweet comment, I feel really flattered and motivated, can't thank you enough!! Greetings from Australia! :)
Boi always up with Bomb Content
Thanks mate :)
Thanks Ben 🙏🏻👏🏼 seni seviyorum😍
Dope video as usual!
You're are king!
Great video! Organize should be #1
Preach!! Nothing more relieving that opening an organized project
These are so helpful! I have no idea why I haven't set up custom workspaces yet...
Thanks man! 100 workspaces for every option :)
Are you able to render in h264 directly from After Effects? 6:15
holy smokes you blew my mind with loading blank projects templates @3:07 :O
Thanks dude! :D I was just making the same folders every time I opened it up. no more!!
Hey ben, you dont have to render out stuff and paste it in, AE got proxies you can use.
11th tip is the best tip
I'd like to add; Adobe media encoder, which allows you to render a project and work on others at the same time without having to wait for the render to finish.
you're fucking amazing, a motion deisgner friend show me your channel and we are always watching your videos ! thanks for all of this
My pleasure, thank you so much for watching! :)
Thank you Ben, your video is always helpful to me. I have a few questions about no.2. I installed kbar2 this time. But I don’t know how to apply ‘One-click label’ and ‘overlord’ you mentioned. I need to your help. I’ll be waiting for your answer.
Thank so much for watching! :D You can get labels here: aescripts.com/labels/
and overlord here: www.battleaxe.co/overlord
Hope that helps :)
Hi Ben, hope you are well I worked on a video/animation in AE and when I rendered it out the quality was crap is there anyway to trouble shoot this. Can you maybe make a tutorial on how to make a 3D thing in AE or point me to a video on how to do it like you did in your pineapple on pizza video, to get a reference for your turning pineapple. Sorry if this is rude of me to ask.
Thanks for no.5 and GSYT link. Was just about to post in my FB group to ask if anyone had something like this
Hmmm actually not so good. I was after a system for naming and organising AE layers
Can it help with my laptop? I have 8 gb ram / i5-9300H / video card is 1660ti. Or i need to purchase better laptop? Cause mine keeps crashing cause of the memory. Thanks in advance for any answers!
Post Haste! (by Digital Rebellion) Make your system folder template, name your projects, load your project templates all in one click. Does GYST mention it?
Im using Ae cc2015, new project option in preferences is not there. I think its in cc2020 only
I just need to tell you that I love you. Thanks for everything Ben! Also I'm high and happy
I'm so glad! Thank you so much for the love :)
you sould try motion 3, it's so goood
Thanks so much! I'll definitely try and update
Don't forget to upgrade to motion v3! Well motion v2 is almost in every shot!
Other nice one is "Key Cloner" that kan easly clone and reverse keyframe across multiple layers.
Thanks for the reminder! Oooo, I'll to give keycloner a go too :)
You should use something like render garden, The export will be 4time faster, it depends on how many cores do you have (I cannot believe it, but it's insane!)
Thanks Ben! Hopping for a promo to make your Master. Here in Brazil is 5x$ :(
Your intro has so much cartoon Network nostalgia
the end of his intro even sound similar to it
Hey Ben would you ever consider making Illustator tutorials? AI is the one Adobe program I really struggle with and it would be great to learn from an animator like you. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the suggestion. :) I'd definitely like to cover more design in the future :D
When you say SSD for all media, do you mean using an external SSD with a laptop? So to have everything (project, assets, etc.) on an external and then only using the laptop for working with them?
I just mean using an SSD in general. :) Most laptops have an SSD in them these days, Keeping files on the the actual laptop shouldn't be a problem :)
I've seen a few tech channels say to never work from external ssd's, seems to be prone to crashing and other issues
@@andrewbredlan417 thats true
Just a note, more RAM and more cores will definitely help you render faster, in a way. If you can dedicate say 4GB of RAM each to maybe 12 cores, you can make the most of BGrender or rendergarden. So something like a ryzen 3900x with 64 GB of ram would get you there with some additional headroom to still be able to use your computer while the render is happening.
Oh thanks so much :D That's really awesome to know. I can maybe feel like my 64 GB of RAM is justified now, haha.
wish i knew about changing the autosave time sooner... Ive probably lost 20+ hours of work because of crashes haha
How did you get H264 and ProRes to show up in your AE render options? I thought they stripped all that out and try to force users to use AME?
I use the plugin After Codecs for rendering in AE, those are some templates I've saved. I just hate waiting for AME to open haha.
@@BenMarriott That's great to know! Thanks!
@@BenMarriott Hey ben, I'm looking for a multi threaded renderer and I have a few questions:
- Does After Codecs renders with sound?
- Does it support RGB + Alpha videos?
@@BenMarriott But doesn't AME allow you to continue working while rendering? And not AE? That saves me a lot of time too! Your videos are really the best by the way, objectively
Sylvain Fernandez yes AME still allows you to work... but when using lots of effects and plug ins, best to use AE renderer as it’s faster and will be more stable.
Must have1
how make this colors bar for layers?
This may be a silly question, but how did you set the Labels script UI to be vertical?
I found out, you have to position where you want and then rescale it, it should automatically resize to vertical or horizontal occupying the most optimized for the space it has
What's the thinking behind using underscores in file and asset names rather than spaces?
mainly out of habit, It's the standard in most studios I've worked it. It stems from many software applications don't recognize file names that contain spaces.
@@BenMarriott But has that been true for any application in the last 20+ years? Mac has always allowed spaces and Windows got long filename support that included spaces in 1994, so that's an ancient custom in computing terms.
You can use proxys instead of pre rendering the videos manually
Such a great tip! Thanks for sharing :D
How did you get the H. 264 in the render output?
Oh that's using the plugin After Codecs. :) I mainly got it so I could export as prores on a PC, but you can do that through AME now anyhow :)
4. Why replace manually instead of making a proxy?
Prerender is nice, proxies are nicer!
Ooooo, I've yet to dabble in those dark arts. Thanks for the suggestion :D
Patreon or TH-cam's 'support' on your channel? This should not be free my man.
Maybe in the future? Thank you so much for your support :)
@@BenMarriott I'm thinking maybe something in the form of a bootcamp or mentorship
God CPU :)
God.
no open in AE 2018 :(
I included a CC2014 .AEP in the project, does that one work?
@@BenMarriott Yes, but the folders are empty or I am doing it wrong.
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Thanks brother! :)
I Got a SSD and it's freaking fast but when it comes to ae it shows no difference and i was pissed off.
I like fly to bat ass. Thank you)
I think I'm a groupie of your content, Ben. What do you put in them? I just can't get enough. Thanks for sharing, bye bye home screen. You might be misunderstood but I just didn't like you. So handy that template project tip. Wow.
Haha, thank you so much :) So glad you're enjoying it :D what else would you like to see me cover? :)
No.1 hardware
Okay im out