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Render while working on a Mac
Is there a way to set up a “render script” that allows rendering of AE projects on a Mac? My co-workers can do it on their PC.
Just wondering if how to do this on a Mac using AE CS3. 8-core leopard.
Thanks,
AdrianAdrian
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3 Replies
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BG Renderer by LLoyd Alvarez. https://aescripts.com/category/scripts/
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Hi,
You can start a render from the command line and this will run in the background and still allow you to work in the UI. You will need to run the Apple Unix terminal program in Applications/Utilities. You could then just create a text file with each command line as a separate line in the script. To run it, just type sh scriptFileName.txt and it will run in the background. the command to run the renderer would be something like this…
/Applications/Adobe CS3 After Effects/aerender blah, blah blah
Obviously you will need to read up on the command line arguments and unix scripting if you want to get into anything complex.
I hope this helps.
Lars
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AE also comes with render engine, a seperate render program
but you have to prepare your project with the render in the renderqueue, collect files and enable the watch folder.
then open render engine and have it watch the watch folder, then you can just keep on working…
(this works great in red too. any connected machine will get the render to be done, and if you select as outputmodule an image sequence, then all machines connected will render the same project)
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