• Adobe After Effects

  After Effects notifies iPhone when render is complete using Prowl and Growl for Windows

  Posted by Thomas Hannen on August 4, 2011 at 9:34 pm

  I wanted to get After Effects to notify my iPhone when it had
  completed a render. I’m using After Effects CS4 for Windows.

  I had followed the steps shown here.

  But couldn’t get it to work. Here’s how I fixed it:

  * Installed Prowl app on the iPhone ($3)
  * Make sure Notifications are enabled on the iPhone (settings / notifications)
  * Registered an API key on the Prowl website, and entered it into the iPhone app
  * Install Growl for Windows, and set it to “forward notifications to
  other computers” see here.

  Then wrote this very simple script in After Effects:

  var appStr = "C:\\Program Files\\Growl for Windows\\growlnotify.com";
var scriptStr = "/t:aetest 'render_completed'";

  var myQueue = app.project.renderQueue // Creates a shortcut for the
  Render Queue.

  // Start rendering.
  myQueue.render();

  system.callSystem(appStr + " " + scriptStr);

  Things to note:

  The annoying double slashes in the path
  Underscore in the scriptStr – I couldn’t get spaces to
  work.
  There are lots of better scripts that test for render queues properly, but I couldn’t get them to work (but I have NO idea what I’m doing with scripts)…

  Hope it helps someone!

  Greg Burrus replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

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  Greg Burrus

  August 5, 2011 at 12:40 am

  I can’t help with you script but I can suggest you check out BG Renderer, https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/ , which has an option to do what you want plus more if you don’t mind paying a bit.

  Greg

  https://mogra.g2bproductions.com/ – Blog
  https://g2bproductions.com/ – Portfolio

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