Are you an Adobe After Effects user who can’t afford Nucleo Pro and doesn’t have the geek-cred to setup a command-line render? Then check out this handy After Effects CS3 freebie from Lloyd Alvarez. BG Renderer is a script that enables you to take whatever items are queued for render, and send them to render in the background. This allows you to keep working in AE even while you render your queue. You can get the script here.

On the subject of working faster in AE CS3, here are a few optimal setting suggestions to speed up those renders.

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