Comments on: labs: RenderQ. . .

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:01:10 +0000

Thanks Urs! And thank you very much for the donation! I will definitely keep you informed and let you know when I am ready to test out the new version. Trying to figure out exactly what sort of workflow will make the most sense.

By: Urs

Urs — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:52:25 +0000

Hey andrew
That Sounds pretty exciting as this is exactly what i would Need it to… have the renders done on another machine! Cool, very cool! Please inform me if you need some tests;-)

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:00:54 +0000

Yes Maitre d’ does not work at the moment unfortunately as I work on making it more useful and rethink what it will be used for. I am looking at using Maitre d’ as the tool to help get renders going on other machines besides your main workstation. Having it actually save little proxy scripts that connect back to the workstation and a launch the render with a simple double-click! Stay tuned, although it may take quite some time to get it all finished up.

By: Urs

Urs — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:10:24 +0000

Hello, found your script today while looking for a elegant solution for rendering multiple files one after the other — good solution – although it took a while for me to get it run. It runs on Mac OS X Lion … although it seems, Maitre d’ does not work…

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:19:13 +0000

Is anyone having issues with Maya 2012 and RenderQ?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:58:26 +0000

Kia Ora,

Any way to edit the script to work with NukeX6.3V1? comes up with error no file or directory???
Awesome app. BTW the ae renderer has more the doubled the time it took to render from the gui and i still get to work on preojects while it’s in action… awesome!!

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:59:53 +0000

It is no problem Tara. Sent you an email, would be glad to help.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:04:56 +0000

Sorry to be daft… but is there a step-by-step “how to” with this ap? I’m trying to use it… drag and drop my AE file on the icon… the window opens and says “Render Finished” but I don’t see the actual render? I’m very confused, obviously. Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Tara

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:29:12 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!

By: florian piento

florian piento — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:03:18 +0000

hi andrew,

I’m running on OSX 10.6.7, AE CS5.

RenderQ wouldn’t recognize there is a render lined up in the .aep file. I tried a few things and it turns out that if I remove the “&” in my file name, RenderQ would do its job fine.

just to let you know,

cheers and thanks again for this great app,

flo

By: Raoul Marks

Raoul Marks — Sun, 29 May 2011 04:18:32 +0000

Hey Mate.
Was using this at work and worked brilliantly but cant get it working on my macbook.
I drag a saved .aep file which has a render setup in the render que properly over onto the droplet renderQ but … It then launches after effects through terminal as it usually does but wont actually render anything.. it just says “Render finished”.

Any help on this would be amazing. so useful this program!

like this:

& echo -e ‘\v’ && ‘/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5/aerender’ -sound ON -project ‘/Users/raoulmarks/Desktop/test.aep’ && echo -e ‘\v\v\t[Job Finished: 'test.aep]‘\v’ && date && echo -e ‘\v’

[Job Start: test.aep]

Sun 29 May 2011 14:04:47 EST

aerender version 10.0.1×19
PROGRESS: Launching After Effects…
echo -e ‘\v\v\v\tRenderQ v1.2\n\thttp://andrewandoru.com/labs\n\n\n\t[Render Finished!]\v’ && date && echo -e ‘\v’ && afplay ‘/Applications/RenderQ/RenderQ.app/Contents/Resources/sounds/renderq_fin_8bit.m4a’
PROGRESS: …After Effects successfully launched

[Job Finished: test.aep]

Sun 29 May 2011 14:04:52 EST

RaoulMacBook-4:~ raoulmarks$ echo -e ‘\v\v\v\tRenderQ v1.2\n\thttp://andrewandoru.com/labs\n\n\n\t[Render Finished!]\v’ && date && echo -e ‘\v’ && afplay ‘/Applications/RenderQ/RenderQ.app/Contents/Resources/sounds/renderq_fin_8bit.m4a’

RenderQ v1.2
http://andrewandoru.com/labs

[Render Finished!]

Sun 29 May 2011 14:04:52 EST

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:10:20 +0000

Tell everyone it was from my brain to my fingers to your ears! I still can’t believe I haven’t got any comments on the going to sleep sound. . .

BTW, I need to do more custom sounds, all I every use is 8bit, let me know if anyone has any requests.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:35:30 +0000

Well, we all love it! Huh, could’ve sworn it was from something… !

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:10:13 +0000

8bit sound is just something I cooked up. Took a couple of iterations before I found the right amount of happiness. Could be similar to something else out there though. Not sure about that.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:03:50 +0000

I need to know… what’s the little 8-bit sound from? It’s been driving me nuts – I know that I know it somehow!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:20:31 +0000

Hey Andrew,

When i use render Q, i’m not 100% sure on where the cinema4d executable is, it shows the app as a folder, so i go into the macos folder and select the app in there. i think that might be wrong..

but also, every time i drag on to the icon, it just says “can’t make Class Ctnr of item 1 {alias “points to my C4D file} into type text”

I’m very confused

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By: Navarro Parker

Navarro Parker — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:55:39 +0000

Thanks for adding C4D support!

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:11:35 +0000

You can get the separate AERender apps (the non Q versions) and they will open up a new terminal window when a project file is dropped on them.

CS5 should be able to render CS4 projects just fine though, plugins and whatnot permitting.

By: Kenneth Bonde

Kenneth Bonde — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:08:54 +0000

Nice touch to put it all into one app.
What do I do if I have a mixture of AE CS4 and CS5 projects ?