Watch Bins – Importing Automated

 Link – Link system directories to your project bins once with absolute or relative paths.

 Sync – Press the sync button at any time, and all new assets are imported into your Watch Bins.

 Subfolders – Choose to include, flatten, or ignore subfolders of each Watch Bin.

 Image Sequences – Enable Image Sequences to identify sequentially named images and import them as image sequences.

 Selective Sync – You can choose to only sync certain Watch Bins by selecting the bins and pressing Sync.

Export Presets – Exporting Automated

 AE or Media Encoder – Pro IO in After Effects allows you to queue render jobs in Media encoder or the AE render queue. 

 Preset Templates – use Preset and Render Templates for rendering in AE, use EPR preset files to render in Media Encoder.

 Naming Format – Customize your own naming format using a variety of wildcards including version, version by stem, project name, sequence/comp name, and a variety of time and date stamps.

 Destination – Set your destination path relative to the project file or an absolute directory.

 Subfolder – Choose to create a subfolder for the exported file(s). This is ideal for image sequence exports.

 Output Modules – Create as many output modules for each Export Preset as needed. Rendering final files is now one click!

 Refresh Image Sequences – Turn on or off the refreshing of image sequences upon syncing your watch bins.

 Color Label Watch Bins – This option will color label your Watch Bins blue so they easily stand out from your other bins.

 Reduce Upon Export (AE Only) – This will reduce your project upon rendering to save time rendering (the original project is unaffected). 

 Trim Upon Export (AE Only) – This will trim your comp to your workarea on export to save time rendering (the original project is unaffected).

 Allowed File Name Endings – Edit this text file to choose which types of files you want your Watch Bins to import. A default list of all common file types is set, but you can change as needed.

 Preset File Location – This file contains all your Export Presets settings and you can easily copy and paste this file to a co-worker’s computer to share your presets with them.