Mar 17, 2010
labs: AEae (Multiple AE instances in OS X). . .
Just like my MayaMaya app, but for After Effects. It simply opens up another instance of After Effects so you can have multiple projects open at once.
Unfortunately you cannot copy and paste directly from instance to instance, but there are many other reasons this can prove to be very useful.
Download: AEaeCS5 (165KB .zip)
Download: AEaeCS4 (200KB .zip)
Download: AEaeCS3 (200KB .zip)
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You can do this on either OS by starting After Effects from the command line with the -m switch.
Yep, this app does it in one click and never even opens the command line. Since you work at Adobe, when can we expect to be able to copy/paste across multiple AE instances? ^_^
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Been doing this for a while all you have to do is duplicate the application.
Yeah I guess that is another method. This one avoids some extra copies of AE on your HDD though. ^_^
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Added CS3 version for those using AE CS3.
Oh man! This is brilliant!
The icons were more work than the apps
It is literally a line of code, but damn if it isn’t easier to click once instead of opening up another app and typing a line of code.
This is so Awesome!!! I really love this App.
Thanks!
No problem. Glad it is useful.
does it not work in Tiger?
I have not tried. If it doesn’t you should be able to edit it within Tiger’s AppleScript Editor, save it out as a new app, and then it should likely work ok.
[...] AEae. . . [...]
its great.. but its a shame it does only work on mac osx.. it would be great for pc
The CS3 version tries to launch CS4 inside the CS3 folder. The script should read:
set aepath to the quoted form of (POSIX path of (“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS3/Adobe After Effects CS3.app”))
Thanks for the heads up. Problem fixed. Much obliged.