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KevinB703
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March 6, 2025
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tmpAEtoAMEProject –– file size getting larger and larger

  • March 6, 2025
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Working in AE I'm exporting a pile (thousands) of different versions of the same file/comp to Media Encoder.  The encoding however is going slower and slower over time.  Is it because the tmpAEtoAMEProject files generated are getting larger?  My initial processes take less than 45 seconds, but they quickly progresses to over 5 minutes.  The first tmpAEtoAMEProject file is 2.2 MB, and the 900th one is 45MB .  I'd like to be able to run batches over the weekend but I've had to stop it daily to empty the disk cache and restart. Is there a work around?  Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated!

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nishu_kush
nishu_kush
Legend
March 6, 2025

Hi Kevin,

 

Thanks for writing in. 900 is a big number for the temp files. Do they all belong to a single Ae project, or are these files collected in one place for all the Ae projects? Also, are they stored on a server or external drive?

Let us know.

 

Thanks,
Nishu

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KevinB703Author
Participant
March 6, 2025

Thanks for replying!  So yes, it is all in one single AE project.  I'm using a short script to swap media, logos, and some of the copy and then push the files over to Media Encoder as seperate versions.  The script references a JSON file in order to render out the different versions.  Media is saved locally on my computer and the outputs are being encoded and saved to an external drive.  The complete list is well over 100k videos, but I'm running about 1000 per day so that I can clean out the cache and restart.

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