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multiple instances of AE7 on mac
hi guys – i have looked at some previous posts about running two instances of ae, but I just can’t really get it to work. There must be a simple way – on the pc you just put “-m” after the command, for example “aftereffects.exe -m”
I’ve tried copying the executable file and opening that, but then all the links to plug-ins don’t work….
Does anyone have an easy, “proper” way to do this?
Cheers
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3 Replies
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Did you try copying the icon for the app (not making an alias) and renaming it to something different?
(maybe we’re just being semantic) 🙂
Alternately, you could buy Gridiron’s Nucleo and accomplish the same thing with one instance.
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Hi,
If you are trying to render one job while working on another, you can use the command line renderer.
Just so long as you have the GUI version running before you start the command line version, there should be no problem with continuing to work on a project while you render in the background. Just don’t use the “reuse” flag.
My usual work flow is to work on a project and then when I have something I need to render, I reduce to project to just what I need to render, send it to the render queue, save the file, usually with the word “reduced” in the filename (so I know to throw it away after I’m done rendering), then run the command line renderer on it. I then reopen the original file and continue working on some other animation while the previous animation renders. Remember, don’t close the GUI version of AE while you start up the command line version or else the GUI version may refuse to start until the command line version finishes.
I have been doing this on a G5 OS-X 10.4.7 AE Ver. 7 and it has been working consitantly well for me.
Hope this helps,
Lars
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This is from a site called MacOSXHints………..
Control click on the application and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents -> MacOS folder, and then make an alias to the After Effects file in that folder. Place the alias somewhere easy to get to, like your Desktop (and/or drag it into your Dock for quick access). Now you can use this link to open After Effects, and it will open as many times as you click on the link. Note that it will open the Terminal also, and show all the open process.
Mark
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