Setting up aerender on Mac. Basics.

[Todd Kopriva]

You pass arguments on the command line, as described here: “Automate rendering with aerender”.

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[Forrest Maready]

Thanks- I’m not sure if you read my post. I’m getting a command not found error. Do you have any explanation for why I might be getting that? I’ve read the documentation already- that’s why I posted the question.

[Todd Kopriva]

Yes, I read your post. I thought that I answered your question “Anyone know the proper way to run aerender on a Mac? Do I double-click it”.

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[Forrest Maready]

Very helpful- thanks Todd. I’m sure Adobe’s proud.

[Matthew Radcliff]

Forrest,

it sounds like either you are not in the correct folder to run aerender, or you are not calling the file correctly. Go to the folder where you have AE installed, and double check by looking for aerender in that directory. If it is there, then type in “./aerender -version” and it should return a line with the version of AE you have.

Best of luck,
Matt

[Forrest Maready]

Thanks Matt- you’re on to something. Double-clicking the file seems to append an exit; command to the end, not sure why. Any ideas why?

Anyways, I didn’t know about the ./ trick (wasn’t mentioned in the manual anywhere) so I learned something new. Thanks man!

[Matthew Radcliff]

Forrest, as far as I understand it, you wouldn’t click on “aerender.” That is an executable that you run from the command line (through the Terminal utility, for instance). The flags and settings are all described in the article that Todd linked to above. You can also type “./aerender -help” and get an output in the Terminal window.

For instance, “./aerender -proj myProject.aep” will render the comps in the queue in the After Effects project called myProject.aep

When you double-click aerender, it is the same as typing “./aerender” in the Terminal. Since you aren’t telling it what to render, it starts up and finds no input, so it then exits the program.

[Dave Irion]

this guy made a droplet AErender script, simply drop your project onto it:

https://www.andrewandoru.com/2010/03/17/labs-aerender/

[Holby Larsen]

you have to add ./ to aerender

first cd to your ae directory (cd /Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ CS5)

not: aerender -project /Volumes/mydisk/myproject.aep

but: ./aerender -project /Volumes/mydisk/myproject.aep

otherwise you get the “aerender: command not found”

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[Jan Vork]

All instructions on the page you are referring to, are with backslashes, so Windows only, I think. Just like the .exe file.

http://www.jaydude.nl