Rendering multiple quicktime videos simultaneously in After Effects

[Brettman123]

In After Effects, how do I render 15 different quicktime videos at the same time, with them all looping and of different durations?

A side question, I also want to bring some illustrations from Ps into the same composition, what is the best method for importing those

into AE? Should I import a Ps file of the image, or convert it into a png? or a screenshot? Thanks!

[imeilfx]

A) If you wish to render 15 different animations with different content or duration - you need to make 15 compositions with that content and/or duration. After that selet all of them and go to Edit>Add to Render Queue or Edit>Add to Adobe Media Encoder queue... - select codec and export properties and place where you wish to save your files.

B) You can import and work on most of graphics formats in AE so it depends on what you wish to do and what is better for you. You can import Ps, AI, PNG, BMP, JPG and many many more to chose from.

[Brettman123]

Hello imeilfx, Thanks for your answers. About your part (A), excuse me, I think I worded it wrong, I want to have all those 15 quicktime videos running at the same time on the same picture / composition. I said render,  . . .I want to combine them ... so I can export and use this as a background image for my masthead on my personal Adobe Portfolio website.

On the other hand - In another post in this forum I had asked you about turning the frame animation into a smart object which I could paste into a new documentand to run simultaneously with other unrelated smart object animations, and I couldn't figure out how to do that.  I tried and it wouldn't select, I thought putting together the 15 animations on one photoshop file would be the easiest way.

[imeilfx]

Yes. I remember our conversation about GIFs ... in there you told me that you know PS but you are not familiar with AE so I tried to show you the way how to achieve what you needed with PS. But I seeing qur questions i think that you are not so familiar with PS as I was thinking.
Now you try make something similar but with AE and I guess we will just come to a stop somewhere also because you lacking basic knowledge of AE.
Don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong to ask and to be newbie in AE/PS world - each of us was starting from the same level. But for you to work with AE properly and understand what we will tell you - you have to learn basics so please start here:
Adobe AE  Basics​

As for what you are asking for - Is that the effect that you wish to achieve?

[Brettman123]

Thank you for reminding me that everyone starts at the same level, and that basic knowledge of the program is essential to achieve progress. My delayed response due to my computer is not able to currently run After effects, so I'll have to try what you put in the video when I get it back running. Another Adobe associate also pointed me to using looping expressions when the clips are of varying durations, so they can loop simultaneously. Thanks for your attentiveness.

[Dave Merchant]

Brettman123  wrote

In After Effects, how do I render 15 different quicktime videos at the same time

After Effects renders items in the queue one at a time.

[imeilfx]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Dave+Merchant  napisał(-a)

After Effects renders items in the queue one at a time.

Actually you can render multiple comps at one time f. eg. with AME when rendering one clip into several formats/codecs or from AE with AE renderer (or scripts based on that) but i guess question that was asked is on more basic AE level and it is not exactly on rendering several clips at once but more on some kind of automation of clip rendering - but I can of course be mistaken.

[Dave Merchant]

The question is about rendering different videos in After Effects.

After Effects renders items in the queue one at a time. Period.

[imeilfx]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Dave+Merchant  napisał(-a)

After Effects renders items in the queue one at a time. Period.

And that is something that we both agree on.

[Mo Moolla]

AE runs renders in a que system currently. One at a time. Not parallel.

So when one finishes the next one up starts.

If you want to batch or parallel render get a 3rd party application or build a render farm.

There are a few 3rd party app out there that are good.

@Dave Merchant