Exporting your template

Exporting collects everything a render needs into one folder: a copy of the project, every registered footage file, fonts, the schema, example renders and a thumbnail. The exported folder, zipped, is what you upload to Nubu.

One-time setup: output modules#

The export renders an example video and a thumbnail for each template comp, using two After Effects output module templates named Nubu - Example and Nubu - Thumbnail. If they are missing, the export shows an Output Modules Required panel listing exactly what to create; add them in the Render Queue's output module templates, then export again.

Export the package#

1. Click Export… at the bottom of the panel.
2. In the Export Package dialog, click Browse… and choose a Destination Folder.
3. Check the Package Name. It is pre-filled from the project's name; characters that can't appear in file names are replaced automatically.
4. Click Export Package.
5. In Create Package Thumbnail, pick a comp from the list, scrub the slider to the frame you want as the cover image, and click Create Thumbnail. The comp preview in After Effects follows the scrubber, so you see exactly what you are choosing.
6. A progress window runs through the steps: saving the project copy, copying and relinking footage, collecting fonts, rendering examples and writing the schema.

When it finishes you get a confirmation with the package's location.

What you get#

Package Name/
  Package Name.aep         Project copy, footage relinked to (Footage)/
  Package Name.nubu.json   The schema
  (Footage)/               Every registered media file
  (Fonts)/                 Fonts collected from the project
  examples/                One rendered example per template comp
  thumbnail.jpeg           The cover image you scrubbed to

The export also switches you into the packaged project, and the panel's version dropdown shows Main (V1).

Fonts#

Fonts are collected into (Fonts)/ automatically. If some can't be located on your system, the export warns you and lists them; copy those font files into (Fonts)/ yourself so renders elsewhere use the right typefaces.

Zip and upload#

Compress the whole package folder into a single .zip:

• macOS: right-click the folder and choose Compress.
• Windows: right-click and choose Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder.

Then follow Uploading a template.

Forks#

Once packaged, Fork… creates a versioned copy of the project (shown as Fork (V2) in the version dropdown) that keeps the same template identity. Use it to rework a template without touching the main version: Merge… applies a fork back, and Delete Fork discards it.

If an export is interrupted#

Interrupted exports (a crash, a full disk) leave a marker in the package folder. Export again with the same name and destination and it resumes where it stopped, skipping files that were already copied.