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Output location not applied to multiple comps in Render Queue

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January 10, 2024
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Steps:
1. Open AE

2. Create 2 or more comps
3. Select 2 or more comps in project panel and Add to render queue (Ctrl + M), all comps should say "Not yet specified" in Output to

4. With all comps in output selected, click on one and set an output location
The output is only set to that 1 comp with its comp name, other comps paths are not set

What should happen is other comps should be set to same folder/path with their comp names.

When does it work?

1. Open AE

2. Create 2 or more comps

3. Select 1 comp and add it to render queue

4. Set an output location to that comp

5. Add other comps to render queue (Output to will not say "Not yet specified" but it will be comp names)
6. select them all and set an output location
Now all the selected comps will be set to the same folder location

This bug happens on both Mac and Windows versions.

As soon as 1 comp has a set output folder, all the other comps will always follow that folder. But if no comp was ever rendered and no location was ever set (i.e. new project, Output location says "Not yet specified") it never sets the location for other selected comps.

Also, this has been bugged for a few recent versions, possibly since the notify option was added.

Attached example video of the bug.

System specs:

AMD Ryzen 7950x
64GB RAM DDR5 @ 5600mhz
RTX 4090
Windows 11
AE version 24.1

For MacOS it's Macbook Pro M2 Ultra, AE 24.1

Render_Queue_bug.zip

AE_Output_bug_2.zip

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jenkmeister17177426

Jenkmeister

Thanks. I can see the output filename is not being set appropriately when you pick a filename. If you use the drop down for the Output To and set that to "Comp name" or one of the other template options, the filename selection should be more sensible.

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1suky1Author

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@jenkmeister17177426 I have attached a 2nd video "AE Output bug 2".

As you can see in a fresh project when I select output modules the 1st one is set correctly, but the other ones show full path and the name is _mp4.mp4 so that's definitely a bug.

One more thing I noticed (didn't record in the video) when I click on that broken output to fix the name it sends me to C:\ instead of the test folder, but if I leave it it does actually render in test folder with _mp4 name.

Since this is the case, a nice quality of life feature would be to also have output module selected especially when multiple comps are added to render queue 🙂 That would speed things up a lot.

Also, I went back to cc2018 and cs6 to check and yes, with multiple comps selected it sets them 1 by 1. Then I selected output modules and in cc2018 it has the same _ bug but in cs6 it sets the names and outputs properly. But one thing I did notice is that in both cs6 and cc2018 new AE project always remembered the last used output location. Even after restarting the app I could never have "Not yet specified" in output module unless I deleted preferences. And back in 24.1 comps added do say "Not yet specified" but when I click on the output it does open the last used folder, it just doesn't set it anymore by default for some reason. So perhaps that is also a cause of a lot of these recent issues.

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jenkmeister17177426

Jenkmeister

Chatted with the team about this. The "as designed" solution is to select each Output Module line for each of the comps, not the Comps themselves. Then when you set the Output location, all selected Output Modules will update to that location. As you can have multiple output modules per comp (but perhaps you don't want to set every output module for a comp to the same location potentially overwritting files), the implementation was that Output To: works based on Output module selection instead of Comp Selection.