The render queue gets used a lot, and there are some small tweaks that I think would improve quality of life when using it - hopefully you agree!
- Add an audio alert to anything that stops the render happening. For example, the 'This will overwrite...' popup. It's very easy to miss and sit there thinking your render is happening, while this box is awaiting approval. Adding an audio alert would help make it less likely to be missed.
- Add a modifier when adding to the render queue to automatically render to the exact comp name, even if an existing render has the same name.
The use case is that I often have iterative versions of comps as they are produced, used to test things in edit. Re-rendering over the same file saves time compared to switching to Premiere, re-importing, replacing etc.
The specific suggestion is to add a keyboard shortcut that is hard to do accidentally for 'Add to render queue and overwrite' - Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M for example currently seems to be free. The idea would be that using this shortcut would add the current comp(s) to the RQ, and automatically accept that the filename will cause an overwrite.
The first time this command is run it should pop a message to alert the user - if accepted future uses of the command would just add the selected comp(s) to the RQ and overwrite the same filename.
- Add an option to either fully collapse a line entry in the RQ after rendering is complete. As an additonal idea, having the list auto collapse all successful renders and keep any with errors in an expanded state would be useful to tell at a glance if there were any errors. That or colour-coding the Status column so that any errors or failures were marked in red for easy identification.
- Add the option to reverse the sorting order of the render queue, so that new entries go to the top of the list, rather than the bottom. This sits alongside the request to have the RQ scroll all the way down when adding new items (https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-ideas/add-to-render-queue-scroll-to-bottom/idi-p/154016... as they are both aspects of the same workflow. For me, having them add to the top of the list would feel most convenient, but having a list that exposed the preset options etc without scrolling would also be great.
- Just to back up @RobBarrett 's request (https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-ideas/add-overwrite-all-option-when-overwriting-files-f... - having an option to dismiss all RQ warnings at once would be great.
Cheers!
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