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  • queue renders from multiple projects CS4

    Posted by David Darrow on March 30, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    I have compositions in many different project files that I’d like to queue up for unattended render rather than waste time doing “open-render-wait” for several days. I tried the BGrender script on aescripts.com but it create a new concurrent instance of the aerender each time you submit a render with it. How can I batch render from multiple project files?

    d3 `-{>

    Joe Clay replied 9 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • David Darrow

    March 30, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Works great! Thanks.

    d3 `-{>

  • Julian Slack

    June 16, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Hello.
    I need help with the whole process please, I really don’t know how to mix everything and put it together. I’ve many projects to render and no time to be on the computer opening composition by composition, file by file, on the render queue. Please, I have that urgent necessity.

    Many thanks from the United Kingdom.

  • Joe Clay

    June 17, 2016 at 5:47 am

    I suppose you’re dredging up an old thread hoping for a shortcut but you have to at least get the items into your queue to render them. You don’t have to open each project file and set it up if you don’t want to, you can just import all of your projects into a fresh project. Drag one of the compositions you want to render. Set up the output module and location, and then find each comp you want and drag them all into the render queue. Then hit render

    Otherwise you can follow Dave’s excellent suggestion from 2009.

    Alternatively you can use aerender, but you still need to set up your comps in each project’s render queue. I have an explanation here for Mac OS X:
    https://workbench.tv/tutorials/2016-06-03_UsingAerender/

    You can then either open up multiple terminal windows and run the command in each window for each different project and they’ll all render at the same time, or you can do something like:

    ./render "Path/to/your/ProjectFile.aep"; ./render "Path/to/your/second/ProjectFile.aep"

    Just put a semicolon between each instruction and they should run one after the other without stopping.

    Joe Clay
    Workbench.tv

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