Rendering and working with image sequences in After Effects

Have you ever had to spend countless hours re-rendering a long animation, simply because the client had a small, minuscule change at the last minute?

If you would have rendered your animation with an image sequence, you could have saved yourself the headache, and at the same time, impressed your client with a quick turnaround.

This quick tutorial covers what an image sequence is, how to render one, and how to work with them inside of After Effects.

Hopefully this tip can help save you valuable render time in the future.

[adamnash]

You have just saved me so so so much time. Thank you

[AndrewConway]

Thank You!... A world of hurt was cured by this Tutorial

[MotionRevolver]

Hi Mike, thanks for watching. To answer your question, yes, rendering an image sequence can actually solve a lot of problems, especially crashing and insufficient memory issues. If your render is crashing at the same frame every time, try rendering that little section as an image sequence to see if that resolves the issue. If not, you may have a corrupt file or preference in AE.

If all else fails, try restoring to default preferences.

[MotionRevolver]

Sounds like you have the "Render Separate Alpha Channel Separately" option checked in your render settings. Simply uncheck that box, and the alpha will be composited into your image sequence.

[KyprosKes]

Hey i need help, i rendered animated text from cinema 4d as image sequences my animation was 6 sec 180 frames, so it made 180 images + it also made 180 images for alpha channel so when i put them in after effects it make 2 different sequences and i cant remove the background from my main animation is there any way to put them as one?(sorry for bad English)

[rukiakuchiki]

i was rendering a composition to tiff images when my render suddenly crash how can i render only the images that were not finished?

[TheSabsal]

Hi, i just wanted to know, when after effects makes seperate files of each image, image sequence, is that an automatic thing or do you have to specify that you want it tod do that. As i want to make an animation but then have the seperate images of each frame. Thank you.

[rukiakuchiki]

how can i render tiff images where it crash?