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August 27, 2022
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aerender - Multiple Projects - Sequentially - One Window

  • August 27, 2022
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Hi

 

I have searched for this for some time now and I can’t seem to find a definitive answer whether it is possible or not. Maybe I'm mssing something obvious.

 

On a Mac, using the Terminal Render for After Effects (aerender), I can easily render out a project and the compositions that it contains that I have added and saved to it’s render queue within the After Effects project file. This is faultless and work well.

 

/Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ 2022/aerender -project /Volumes/project.aep

 

I am aware that I can also open another terminal window and have another command line render going on at the same time. However, that is not what I want.

 

I want to know if there is a command line code I can use so that I can instruct it to render one project, then once it has finished rendering that first project, then start rendering a second project. Then I can leave it unattended and rendering multiple different “projects”over night, without having to keep entering new code to start the next project.

 

Please note, that I am talking about rendering multiple different “projects” here, not multiple different “compositions’ within the same one project.

 

Thanks

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Mylenium
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August 27, 2022

You can simply string together multiple commands in a shell script (*.sh) file. You may want to read up on this.

 

Mylenium

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September 3, 2022

Thanks for the reply and info Mylenium

 

Following your advice, I looked into Shell Scripts as much as I could with the time I have, and it’s all beyond me how to code those.

 

If anyone finds a step by step guide somewhere, I’d appreciate seeing it.

 

Thanks 🙂