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RonnyL
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July 1, 2025
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aerender.exe ignores expressions on layers?

  • July 1, 2025
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Hi folks,

I have a simple comp with some footage and some textlayers.

On many layers I used the built-in "Animation Presets -> Behaviors -> Fade In+Out - frames" for just fading layers opacity in and out.

When I render the comp with the commandline-renderer "aerender.exe" everything looks as it should, except the opacity of the layers using the expression created with this preset. It's like the commandline-renderer ignores or doesn't "understand" the expressions on the opacity. Concerning layers are just 100% opaque.

What I am doing wrong? Or is it a bug? Why "aerender.exe" just doesn't render the comp like AE would?

Kind regards,
Ronny

Correct answer RonnyL

It's a submitter plugin problem.
We use a 3rd party script to send AE comps to our renderfarm.

Now I have to debug together with the developer, what's wrong with their script.

 

If I render the comp manually, aerender.exe is english and the comp looks good.

 

Case closed.

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nishu_kush
nishu_kush
Legend
July 2, 2025

Glad to hear that you were able to figure out the problem. Thanks for updating the thread.

Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions. I'm moving this thread from Bugs to Discussions for troubleshooting.


Thanks,
Nishu

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RonnyLAuthorCorrect answer
Participant
July 2, 2025

It's a submitter plugin problem.
We use a 3rd party script to send AE comps to our renderfarm.

Now I have to debug together with the developer, what's wrong with their script.

 

If I render the comp manually, aerender.exe is english and the comp looks good.

 

Case closed.

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RonnyLAuthor
Participant
July 2, 2025

It's a language problem.

We installed AE in english, but the aerender.exe "works" still in german. I was wondering why aerender.exe logs in german, altough our AE on all machines is installed in english.

 

I switched my AE to german by editing the "....\Support Files\AMT\application.xml" and reassigned all expressions and retried to render it with aerender.exe. Now the expressions work and the layers fade in and out.

 

But that's not a solution, because we need to use AE in english.

 

The question is:
How do I get aerender.exe to work in english? Seems, it doesn't use the key

<Data key="installedLanguages">en_GB</Data>

set in the "....\Support Files\AMT\application.xml".

 

Even on a machine, which is completely english, aerender.exe logs its output in german.

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