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Starting a render node from terminal on OSX
Is there a script command on mac osx to start up a render node? What I’m really trying to do logically is to set a render to automatically restart if the node fails. I’m having a lot of problems with more than one node not being able to run at a time. And until I can trouble shoot the exact problem, I was hoping to get my render done with something like this:
Run this script on a crontab every minute:
Search the RCF file for: “Error Stopped”
if it reads that, then rewrite the RCF file as:
After Effects 8.0v1 Render Control File
max_machines=16
num_machines=0
init=0
html_init=0
html_name=””(have to restart the watch at this point, so probably need to shutdown aftereffects)
restart aftereffects and start watch folder again…
HELP?!
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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3 Replies
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Hello? Hello? Hello?
(Sounds of crickets)
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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Hi Ty,
The command line renderer is aerender, located in the After Effects CS3 folder. If you run it from the Terminal, it will show you the use of the arguments.
It doesn’t support watch folders, but you can tell it what comp in the project or item in the render queue to render. The setting to skip existing files is built into the Multi-Machine Sequence output module template, so you should be able to point your render nodes at the same shared storage.
Walter Soyka, Principal
Keen Live, Inc.
Presentation, Motion Graphics & Widescreen Design
RenderBreak: A Blog on Innovation in Production -
Thank you! This is the exact information I was looking for!
Ty Audronis
Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium
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