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Watch folders & Automator
I’m trying to create and automated render file transfer from one server folder to another via Automator and iCal.
However, using those two apps I have only been able to schedule a specific time of day to launch the automated transfer process versus having the process launch the moment a render is completed out of AE.
Has anyone cooked-up a method for running such a process that is specific to the moment a render is finished?
My apologies if this seems like a RTFM scenario. Thanks in advance.
AE CS4 – OSX.5.6
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Well, I know somewhere I’ve seen something that does this, I just can’t remember where or what it was called 🙁
Anyhow a sloppy quick-fix would be to set the render command in the task scheduler ( I know MacOS has one somewhere) – just set the frequency to like 5 minutes or something and not to repeat if its still running.. if its a dedicated render box you could do a frequency of 1 minute as its not gonna bother anyone of a render box is checking something every minute..
Hope it helps.. sorry I dunno more..
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idea off the top of my head:
You could set up your render queue so that the last item in the queue is a little dummy item that renders and exports a file with a certain name to a certain folder. You can have a job running that checks for the presence of that file and only runs your copy operation after it detects the presence of that file.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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