[Colin Braley]

I think its April 18 unless they changed it.
~Colin Braley

[Colin Braley]

[rendernyc] “sounds a lot like smedge, rush, DrQueue, etc”

Yes, it is similar to Rush, Smedge etc. However, this app is not intended to be used for network rendering, but rather for managing rendering on a single machine. If you wanted, you could use this app to do network rendering, but that is not what it was designed for. It IS intended to be an easy to use, yet customizable, way for a user on a single machine to manage multiple renders from different apps. Also, unlike Smedge, Rush, etc. this app is able to launch multiple instances of AE to speed up rendering. Lastly, this program is able to notify you of render progress via email and shutdown when finished, which many other render managers can’t do.
Overall, I believe that many programs like Rush can be overkill for a single user, especially someone who is not very technically minded. They can be tough to learn and have features that go unused by the average user. On the other hand, these types of programs are great for large studios with a big render farm and someone who can devote the time to learn these apps.

~Colin

[Colin Braley]

[Colin Braley]

GIve this a go:

//–
duration = .5;
seedRandom( Math.floor(time/duration) , true );
Math.round( random(0, 4) – 1) * 90
//–
~Colin

[Colin Braley]

I think it’s a good start, bit I’d say overall it looks a bit static. Maybe some type of motion/color in the background might help, rather than just flat gray. Most of all, I’d say a camera move would really help to make things seem more dynamic. Do you have to use all gray and black?…if not I would suggest picking a different color scheme. Overall, good start on the animation.
~Colin Braley

[Colin Braley]

I have absolutely no idea if this would work, nor have I tried it, but maybe you could use Wine to run aerender.exe? Also someone on this thread
<https://www.short-media.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-5247.html>
claims they have gotten After Effects to run using ‘CrossOver Office’ (a Wine variant). Post on here again if you ever get AE running under Linux, that would be neat to hear about.
~Colin

[Colin Braley]

[wuzelwazel] “You’ll probably figure this out pretty fast, but those are reversed =)”

Hahahaha yeah, someones an observant reader.
~Colin

[Colin Braley]

On windows its Ctrl + left arrow to go one frame forward, and Ctrl + right arrow to go one frame back. If you hold down shift while doing this you will move 10 frames instead. On a mac ism assuming you would use command instead of ctrl.
~Colin

[Colin Braley]

I guess so…I used your script the otehr day by the way, it worked out well. I don’t see why Adobe doesn’t make it possible to keyframe the verticies of masks…clearly these numbers are available to the program, and I don’t see why it would be so hard to make them keyframeable. But I guess it it was that easy, they would have done it by now.
~Colin

[Colin Braley]

The only problem with Digital Anarchy’s plug in is that you cant buy it standalone, and you can only sample make 1 sample every frame….im hoping the new command AE is including is something where you can type something like colorSample( layerName, xCoord, yCoord, time) in an expression and get the color value of any layer at any pixel, at any time. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
~Colin