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thomasw27428003
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February 12, 2020
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Auto-rename Output name in After Effect Render Queue

  • February 12, 2020
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Hello
I have to work multiples time with a After Effect template. On this template, I have to render multiple comps with each contain the same word. Is it a way to change all the Output name of all the compos in the Render Queue? (for example place a # on front of the rendering name) for example, to have pre-save the comp with #example_test.mov and be able to have the soft rename automatically to JANUARY_test.mov.

Hopefully I was clear, thank you in advance for your help!

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Correct answer Roland Kahlenberg

Tokens in the Render Queue are what you should be looking at. More info here - https://medium.com/@justin.gundlock/use-ae-render-tokens-to-automatically-set-file-names-and-paths-a437f4749e79

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Roland Kahlenberg
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February 12, 2020

Tokens in the Render Queue are what you should be looking at. More info here - https://medium.com/@justin.gundlock/use-ae-render-tokens-to-automatically-set-file-names-and-paths-a437f4749e79

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    thomasw27428003Author
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    February 13, 2020

    Looks like it's exactly what I am looking for! Thank you so much, you will make me save so much time!

    Joost van der Hoeven
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    Joost van der HoevenCommunity Expert
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    February 12, 2020

    Not sure if this helps, but I've created templates where a comp uses its name as input for text. So if I rename the comp to January, the text would show January, duplicating the comp 11 times and renaming the comps to the names, updates the texts accordingly and obviously when exporting the file would have the comp name. 

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    thomasw27428003Author
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    February 12, 2020

    Hello, Thank you for your help. It's true when you create a new Comp, and place it on the Render Queue. The default name will be the Comp name. But won't work in my case because, my Comps are all different and done once (I don't want to redone them).

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