We've covered working with media and animating it, so now it's time for the final step: **rendering**. 

Rendering is the process of **converting your composition's timeline into a video file**. The complexity of your project will determine the time and computer resources needed for rendering.

In this chapter, **you've learned**:
- How to render your projects in After Effects;
- Basic and advanced rendering options using Media Encoder;
- The importance of rendering for finalizing and exporting your animations.

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Adobe After Effects Basics

Render

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