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id: admin_hosts_aftereffects
title: AfterEffects Settings
sidebar_label: AfterEffects
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## AfterEffects settings

There is a couple of settings that could configure publishing process for **AfterEffects**.
All of them are Project based, eg. each project could have different configuration.

Location: Settings > Project > AfterEffects

![AfterEffects Project Settings](assets/admin_hosts_aftereffects_settings.png)

## Publish plugins

### Validate Scene Settings

#### Skip Resolution Check for Tasks

Set regex pattern(s) to look for in a Task name to skip resolution check against values from DB.

#### Skip Timeline Check for Tasks

Set regex pattern(s) to look for in a Task name to skip `frameStart`, `frameEnd` check against values from DB.

### AfterEffects Submit to Deadline

* `Use Published scene` - Set to True (green) when Deadline should take published scene as a source instead of uploaded local one.
* `Priority` - priority of job on farm
* `Primary Pool` - here is list of pool fetched from server you can select from.
* `Secondary Pool`
* `Frames Per Task` - number of sequence division between individual tasks (chunks)
making one job on farm.