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January 10, 2024

Overwriting multiple renders confirmation is always asked for each render

  • January 10, 2024
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This happens on both Windows and MacOS. Every time you want to overwrite an existing file/render, you are asked twice, for each render.

 

Example:

You have 5 renders and you want to overwrite all 5.

You go one by one setting output location and confirming in Windows and MacOS to Replace/Overwrite the existing file. 

You then hit Render and After Effects asks you again to confirm you want to overwrite existing files, for each individual render instead of confirming it once for all renders. 

 

For example in Premiere, there is no 2nd confirmation. It only asks for confirmation when you are selecting the location/same file name. Once you hit render in Premire it just renders and overwrites the file.

Same with Media Encoder, you go 1 by one, set the path, confirm to overwrite it and when you hit render it just renders. Only AE asks for double confirmation and it asks it for each individual render.

 

AE version 24.1 but happening since forever

 

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4 replies

nishu_kush
Legend
June 11, 2024

This is acknowledged. Thanks for pointing it out. 

 

Best,

Nishu

Frank_B
Inspiring
April 25, 2024

Hope this is getting acknowledgement. If not as a bug then as an usability issue.
Really no need for double confirmation to overwrite render file. It's not launching a nuke. 😉
1st confirmation when selecting "Output To":

 


2nd confirmation when clicking on "Render" button:


It wasn't like that in the older versions. Please remove the 2nd pop-up window

1suky1Author
Known Participant
January 11, 2024

Oh yeah had the same _ bug a few times, haven't found out what causes it.

Frank_B
Inspiring
January 11, 2024

@1suky1Thanks for posting this. I thought I was the only one thinking there are too many confirmations.
From my experience rendering with AE is overall unpredictable and takes tripple checking if everything went fine. Sometimes AE is changing the output file names to _.mp4 for unknown reason but that's an issue for a separate bug report.