Is there a way to open multiple instances of AE on Windows?

[Michael Szalapski]

Why would you want to? Perhaps we can find another solution for you.

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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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[Arne Münch]

hi Michael

thanks for you reply

I was working for a job on a very strong 8 processor machine and it would have been much more effective to edit one ae-project while rendering another. I am used to work like this with cinema 4d and i like this kind of workflow.

any ideas how to do it without multiple instances of ae?

thanks

[Brian Charles]

[leif falk] “it would have been much more effective to edit one ae-project while rendering another”

Have you considered the Background Renderer Script?

https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/

[Walter Soyka]

Another vote for BG Renderer.

You can launch aerender.exe manually from the command line, but BG Renderer’s notification features are top-notch.

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[Arne Münch]

yeah, aerender at the end works
but only if I allow my firewall to allow ae to acces the internet. Otherwise i get an error message (After Effects can not open a socket to aerender)
Why is that necessary, i prefer not letting my software to communicate with the web unasked?

[Walter Soyka]

To get around the 32-bit limitation of QuickTime, Adobe wrote a client/server system that allows 64-bit AE to communicate with 32-bit QT via your computer’s internal network stack. It does require the firewall to allow this in order to pass data back and forth. I doubt the software is actually trying to communicate beyond your own network.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Gon Perdigao]

Create a shortcut where you want.
Second mouse button and edit the target properties of your short cut, and in the end of everything just type -m (before the -m give a space between the -m and the end of everything ) and its done

[I.g. Romov]

Mr. Perdiago is on to it but you only need modify the existing shortcut as he describes, i.e. find existing AE shortcut and add -m AFTER the ” like so:

“C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5\Support Files\AfterFX.exe” -m

To answer the why of it; I created a couple of variations of a project and, sigh, didn’t doc what they were. I needed to compare them to find out and Inet search didn’t find any tools for doing so so I needed to open them up and inspect manually.

[Chris Jeffries]

“C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5\Support Files\AfterFX.exe” -m

Thanks much – greatly appreciate the tip!

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