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brunop95489334
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November 25, 2021
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Aerender steals focus

  • November 25, 2021
  • 4 replies
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Like... WHY?

Ive made a farm tool using backburner for using unused cpu power and everything works fine, except that by some absurd reason aerender, which is a cmd line tool, steals focus (??)

So if the designer is using photoshop (can be any software), everytime a task is assigned to his machine, it interrupts his strokes because aerender steals focus....

I did try to call the batch like so to make sure nothing I was doing was stealing focus:

 

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START "aerenderBB" /MIN /WAIT /B /LOW "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2021\Support Files\aerender.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 | find /I "ERROR:"
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (exit /b 32) else (exit 0)

(by the way, I have to work around the fact that aerender, besides stealing focus, does not return error codes..........................)

 

any solution or fix to this?

Thanks.

 

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    Correct answer brunop95489334

    this seems to mitigate the problem

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%comspec% /c START "aerenderBB" /MIN /WAIT /B /LOW "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2021\Support Files\aerender.exe" -v ERRORS %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 | find /I "ERROR:"
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (exit /b 32) else (exit 0)

    4 replies

    Frank_B
    Frank_B
    Inspiring
    January 2, 2024

    Is Adobe going to solve it or are we doomed and our work will be forever interrupted by Aerender?
    It happened multiple times today including interrupting typing down new file name in windows...

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      armtim
      Participant
      May 18, 2022

      Can someone explain the solution in plain english?
      AE stealing focus is driving me insane. It steals focus on render (with built in render, not third party) and during autosaves.
      Not sure I understand how to apply this correct answer code to the issue. 
      THanks!

        mrBeep
        mrBeep
        Known Participant
        September 28, 2023

        What happens if you minimize the cmd aerender app?

        brunop95489334
        brunop95489334AuthorCorrect answer
        Inspiring
        November 25, 2021

        this seems to mitigate the problem

        @4628292 off
%comspec% /c START "aerenderBB" /MIN /WAIT /B /LOW "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2021\Support Files\aerender.exe" -v ERRORS %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 | find /I "ERROR:"
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (exit /b 32) else (exit 0)
        brunop95489334
        brunop95489334Author
        Inspiring
        November 25, 2021

        this seems to mitigate the problem.

         

        @4628292 off
%comspec% /c START "aerenderBB" /MIN /WAIT /B /LOW "c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2021\Support Files\aerender.exe" -v ERRORS %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 | find /I "ERROR:"
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (exit /b 32) else (exit 0)
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