• Adobe After Effects

  Unable to run aerender command over ssh using system.callSystem script

  Posted by Mark Paterson on November 13, 2019 at 10:27 pm

  I’ve wrote a script that sends my current active project to aerender directly from a Script UI button. It works fine on my local machine like this…

  myPanel.grp.group8.getPath.onClick = function() {

  if(app.project.file !== null){
  var path = app.project.file.fsName;
  $.writeln(path);
  }

  var renderCommand = "/Applications/Adobe\\ After\\ Effects\\ 2020/aerender -project " + path;
  system.callSystem(renderCommand);

  }

  However I would like the render to take place on a different machine which has access to the same files. The following Terminal command (from my machine) works and the image sequence gets rendered ok…

  ssh server@192.168.50.4 /Applications/Adobe\\ After\\ Effects\\ 2020/aerender -project /Volumes/Work/Jobs/test.aep

  The problem is, if I try to add ssh into the AE script like this, it does not work…

  myPanel.grp.group8.getPath.onClick = function() {

  if(app.project.file !== null){
  var path = app.project.file.fsName;
  $.writeln(path);
  }

  var renderCommand = "ssh server@192.168.50.4 /Applications/Adobe\\ After\\ Effects\\ 2020/aerender -project " + path;
  system.callSystem(renderCommand);

  }

  What am I doing wrong? What is the correct syntax to do this?

  Mark Paterson replied 6 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

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  Mark Paterson

  November 22, 2019 at 8:43 pm

  The following command works. Turns out I needed to backslash the quotes in a couple of places…

  var renderCommand = "ssh server@192.168.50.4 \"/Applications/Adobe\\ After\\ Effects\\ 2020/aerender -project \"" + path;
system.callSystem(renderCommand);

  However, the issue now is that AE pinwheels until the aerender is complete on the other machine haha. The same happens when I remove ssh from the command and aerender locally. I guess I need to find a way to let it run in the background or just send the command then return focus to AE?

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