Link external data (.csv) file

[Christine Tang]

It opens within seconds but for some reason it renders out in After Effects fine but when I try to render it out in Media Encoder, my trains with the code on it is missing but my backgrounds and other layers are rendering fine.

Any reason why it doesn’t work in media encoder?

[Filip Vandueren]

Please, for the love of god never render in AME

It’s a mystery to me what that thing wants to or does not want to render.
It’s just a black box that “kinda” renders aep.-projects but then often it kinda doesn’t…

I hate it and I suspect the feeling’s mutual 🙂

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Filip, well, I can’t agree more, but at the same time – disagree as well, haha!

Its a bummer that rendering through Render Queue disables you from using AE – thus, whenever project is not terribly complex, AME works just fine.

And not to mention additional encoding to web-friendly formats.. Thus unless person is capable in automation of things through ffmpeg and stuff, AME is pretty much time saver, till a certain point 🙂

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[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Tomas,

Well, before I started using Rendergarden, I often just used the command-line renderer that is included with after effects.

– Open a Terminal
– drag and drop the app aerender on the console.
– type the word “-project ”
– drag and drop the .aep file on the console,
– hit enter.

That takes about 5 seconds and requires 0 programming/automation skill ☺
I think this is exactly what the background-render script just automates.

True After effects rendering in the background, with After effects still available for you. You can start as many concurrent renders as you want this way.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Filip, well – yes and no again from my point of view, haha!

Considering aerender.exe approach you mentioned – what you do with a rendered output, when it finishes? If it is image sequences, you also need audio to be rendered. Proper profiles defined, etc. And yes, encoding it to final output too, whether its lossless single output or sequences.

Thus, while it “kind of” helps, it adds extra work – who wants to do extra tedious work, raise your hand, haha!

This is why it is a questionable approach, which requires excessive management, if done manually, IMO ☺ So talking about general use case scenarios for most users, without many bells and whistles – I would say AME 95% of a time.

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