You can use the built-in Adobe Media Encoder to render and export many kinds of files within After Effects, or use the standalone Adobe Media Encoder application to render and encode movies outside of After Effects. Batch encoding and using a watch folder in Adobe Media Encoder can save time and free After Effects for other tasks, as you'll see in this video.

This movie showcases the drag-and-drop video effects, effect acceleration, and video adjustment layer controls in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. It also shows the new Mercury Playback Engine's ability to play back effects with no dropped frames. Finally, it goes on to show how to effectively render out playback when needed.

Adobe Press and video2brain teach you about frame rates for footage items, compositions, and rendered movies, and how to modify each kind of frame rate to achieve the desired result.

Learn about the After Effects workflow. Import footage into a project. Create layers in a composition by dragging footage into the Timeline panel. Render and export a movie by using the render queue.

Render and export a composition as a playable movie file. Change output module settings in the Render Queue panel to choose output format and file destination.

Shot on location in New Zealand, home of such movies as the Lord of the Rings and theChronicles of Narnia. What a great place to showcase Adobe CS4 Production Premium's truly tapeless video workflow with no rendering!