just reading your posts i should solve all my doubts.

Thank you so much for your really great and impressive job

http://www.andrewandoru.com/labs/renderq

WIll you update aerender for CS5.5?

It would be fantastic

Cheers!

Usually what I do if I want to render a project (that is on my main workstation) on another machine on my network is going to that machine, connecting back to my main workstation using built-in File Sharing in OS X (AFP) navigating to the project, and INSTEAD OF copying the project to the other machine you can just drag the project file (that is still located on main workstation) onto AERender and it should render just fine. AE sorts paths out pretty well over a network, but if you duplicate the project it is up to you in some cases.

(AERender is no longer developed as all of its functionality has been moved into RenderQ, so make sure to check that one out too)

I’m trying to get AErenderer working over a network,
all my source files are on a computer attached to this computer via ethernet,
connecting to the computer locally, AErenderer says that it is unable to call openFast because of the parameter 1. Path is not valid

I was just wondering if there was a work around for this

Help is greatly appreciated ^^

Pardon if I’m a little crass. I have used your your plugin for nearly 6 months now. About 2 months ago I updated to CS5 and Snow Leopard. AE CS5 was working fine until tonight. It’s 11:05 PM, I have a sundance project render due tomorrow, and your AErender has failed about 20 times.

The project I built is 16 bit, full HD 1920 x 1080, 12 seconds long, 314 frames, 29.97fps.

It has rendered out with AERender until tonight.

I get the following errors:

With Multiprocessing off:
“aerender ERROR -609: AESend failed to send apple event at line 766″

With Multiprocessing on:
aerender Error: After Effects error: Rendering error while writing to file /Users/carloflores/Desktop/Barber/FINAL RENDERS/Memorial Card REVISED.mov. An output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464)

Switched over to 8 bit, nothing seems to make a difference.

I do have the Video Copilot Flares installed, I found out about the bug. I installed the fix, around 4 times: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2010/05/plug-in-updates-information/

to no avail. I even went as far as to reinstall AE CS5, and that did nothing. I even have the AE Secret on: checkmarked Disable Layer Cache and to Purge Ever 2 Frames During Make Movie.

My machine specs are:

Mac OS X version 10.6.5
Processor: 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 18 GB 800 MHZ DDR2 FB-Dimm

AE CS5 version 10.0

Please help me, I’m desperate for an answer, something.

I have another app I finished awhile ago that actually either opens a new terminal window if terminal isn’t running, or if there is currently a window open it will just open a new tab.

ALWAYS feel free to post up your own edits of these apps. That is the whole idea. Make them fit your own workflow, that is what they are for in the first place.

Good Stuff.

on open {droppedFile}

–Set the project file path
set projectfile_path to the quoted form of (POSIX path of (droppedFile as text))

process_file(projectfile_path)

end open

on run
–Get the project file path
set projectfile_path to quoted form of POSIX path of (choose file with prompt “Choose a file to render” default location path to desktop)

process_file(projectfile_path)

end run

–Launch Render in Terminal
on process_file(projectfile_path)

–Set the Render Command
set render_cmd to “‘/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/aerender’ -sound ON -project ” & projectfile_path

tell application “System Events”
if (count (processes whose name is “Terminal”)) is 0 then
tell application “Terminal”
activate
do script with command render_cmd in window 1
end tell
else
tell application “Terminal”
activate
do script with command render_cmd
end tell
end if
end tell
end process_file

I was literally just attempting to write a script, which would delay the renders of each ae instance I had open by x amount of time, but found this in the process, which is exactly what I really wanted to do!

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS9F936D13-E76A-41e4-BF8F-577132AB4723a.html

You could also try looking at the “aerender” section of the docs to see if there is a flag that can be added that but I don’t believe there is. You could contact Adobe about this but I don’t think there is anything I could do with my app to make that happen unfortunately.

Something new is coming soon as far as Render apps go though Definitely check back soon.

I have a question for you about memory. When i set a render off traditionally, I get 8 processes that pop up in my activity monitor. “aesflink” I assume these are the render processes that attach to each of my cores. When a render is finish…these processes drop in priority, and my RAM purges.

After my first test with the droplet, the RAM never purged….the stock activity monitor remained fully blue. Is there a way to purge memory after wards….or do I have to use -aerenderflag, and then use some flag to make it happen.
Thanks in advance!

Also very excited about CS5, I will definitely be updating the apps.

Can’t wit now for CS5

It would be up to adobe to add some sort of time remaining indicator on their aerender app to do that. You could also use Qmaster to get more of an indicator of how long a render will take.

Would be nice to see time remaining though that is worth mentioning to Adobe.