This is my first post here and here's my question:
I am working on a project where I have 17 seperate AE projects and each night I need to render out each project to its own AVI.
I am looking for a quick and simple way to render all 17 in one go, as opposed to opening each project, setting it to render and then going on to the next.
I tried creating a new project, importing all 17 projects into that one (called 'All Projects') and then adding the 17 needed compositions to the render queue and this worked fine........however when i open up an individual project and make ammends to it these changes are not seen and updated in the project ('All Projects') with the 17 imported into it so I had to re-import all 17 again to render the changes.
Is there a way to make a project which dynamically loads in the 17 projects so any ammends i make are picked up and rendered in one click?
I hope I have explained the situation clearly enough? If not please let me know and i'll try to explain more clearly....
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help and i look forward to your ideas...
Re: Dynamic render queue for 15 compositions? by Ron Coy on Jun 3, 2008 at 2:44:32 pm
since you have them all in one project file, why don't you just do all your changes in the "All Projects" project, and trash or archive the old ones?
You don't need to keep them separated, do you? If so, I would do all my changes in the "All Projects" project until I was completely done, then put them all into their own projets afterwards.
Re: Dynamic render queue for 15 compositions? by Kevin Camp on Jun 3, 2008 at 3:45:40 pm
unless you do this a lot, i think working in the 'all projects' project may be the easiest way.
but you might try looking for a script (or request/write one) that would create a single project form selected projects every time you wanted to render (you might check aenhancers.com).
or, if you know vb (windows) or applescript, you could create a standalone script that could most likely do what you are looking for. if you are on a mac, apple's automator is pretty easy to use and may be able to do it to, but you would need to find 'automations' for after effects (apple provides many for their own software, and i know i've seen some for photoshop, so there may be some for ae too). the basic ae automations you would need would be import [project name], add comp [names] to render queue and render.
Re: Dynamic render queue for 15 compositions? by Dave LaRonde on Jun 3, 2008 at 3:41:33 pm
[james g. brown]"Is there a way to make a project which dynamically loads in the 17 projects so any ammends i make are picked up and rendered in one click? "
Nope. Sorry. When you imported all those projects into one, you created a NEW and DIFFERENT project as far as AE is concerned.
Your options are to render any revisions directly within the individual projects, or make all the revisions, then import all the revised projects into another new project and render.
Dave LaRonde
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