How to queue After Effects comp in AME and retain render settings from AE?

Hello doctorsney,

I'd suggest that you create a post on our UserVoice platform and if it gets enough votes, the After Effects team might consider implementing it. Here is the link: After Effects: Hot (1311 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks,

Rameez

This has been an annoyance for me for years.

I work on an ongoing project that requires me to build about 100 items of content once a week.  The output content is a combination of jpeg stills and H264 video files.  The AE projects are built using a script that refers to external data, replacing text, images and audio files, then creating the relevant output items in the Render Queue automatically.  After the script does it's stuff, I'm left with around 30 AE projects, each with numerous items in their Render Queues.

In the old days, when I could render H264 from the render queue, this was easy.  I would simply combine all the project files into one giant file and hit render.  A few hours later the job was done, all in one step.  Quick and efficient.

No such luck any more.  I can't render H264 from the Render Queue any more.  I can't use "Send to AME" from the Render Queue, because it doesn't carry the format requirements over - the stills don't render as Jpegs etc etc.

The only solution I've found that doesn't require me manually re-queueing everything in AME is to render intermediate QT files from the Render Queue, and all the other jpegs etc.  Then Drag all the intermediate renders to AME and re-encode as H264, with the associated file management afterward.

It's not a disaster, but a clear example of progress superseding really valuable functionality.

Just in case anyone cares, and also to semi-address Roei's comment, the format in this particular case is a Quicktime Prores 4444 with Alpha (I'm rendering keyed intermediates, and before y'all lecture me on the shortcomings of PRORES 4444 as an intermediate format, I get it and still have enough quality to make this workflow worthwhile for this project. My other intermediate format choice would be PNG Sequences - 'Straight, RGBA' which I also use)

It should and it depends on how do you add to your AME render queue.

a) If you go to Composition>Add to AME queue... - it will use AMEs last used settings
b) But if you go to Composition>Add to Render Queue and then from Render Queue panel - Queue in AME button - it should take your AE export settings and apply them in AME

so if you use A - just use B, but if you use B and don't have your settings - let us know because there is some other issue.