Adobe After effects watch folder

[Walter Soyka]

[jeffin ravi] “I want to instruct the AME to export only one composition(the main comp) from the project, Is there any way around to achieve this?”

When you drop an .AEP file into an Adobe Media Encoder watch folder, AME renders all the comps contained in the root level of the project. Tuck all the comps you DON’T want to render into a folder before saving the AEP and you should be able to render only the main comp.

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[Jeffin Ravi]

Yep, That did the trick , Thanks Walter

[Danyl Bernard]

How do you create such a setup with a .aep file in a watch folder, that every time a comp is created in the root folder, it is automatically rendered in AME?

[Brendon Murphy]

You would probably want to script out something that saves and then sends your current project to the watch folder. Maybe overwriting or deleting old aep’s that are in there already. You could even set it up so that the temporary Watch folder aep puts all render queue comps into the root directory while deleting others.

[Danyl Bernard]

Where is this script created, in After Effects or Media Encoder? I’m not familiar with how a script in Encoder would work (where to place it etc.)

[Walter Soyka]

Items are moved out of watch folders after they’re rendered.

If you’re automating this, I’d have your automation generate the new comps in the AEP, then save and copy the AEP into the watch folder.

[Danyl Bernard]

Can the AEP already exist in the watch folder, and then after the script creates the comp and saves the project, the watch folder will take it from there?

[Walter Soyka]

You could try it, but I think AME will try to process the file and move it out of the watch folder as soon as it’s there.