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    Parameters Specific to After Effects

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    Browse or enter manually the location of the project file to be rendered. This is a required field for submission

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    Note: After Effects requires that all plugins and fonts be installed and licensed on each Worker.

    Important: Best

    practise

    practice is to ensure the project file and all of its

    dependant

    dependent files such as textures are on network storage accessible by the workers.

    After effects requires all plugins and fonts to be installed and licensed on every worker

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    Use the spinners to enter the required version of After effects.

    executable

    Tooltip - Leave it set to "_AE_" to allow the job to find the right version of aerender on the worker.

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    CS Version
    Tooltip - Select version numbers to make an educated guess at where aerender is found on the remote worker.

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    Left default qube will automatically find the version of After Effects on the worker

    Project File

    Tooltip - Path to Creative Cloud
    Check the box if you are using a Creative Cloud version of After Effects.

    Use CC Year
    Check the box if your Creative Cloud software is versioned by year, eg, Creative Cloud 2014.

    CC Year
    The year (version) of Creative Cloud After Effects to use. This only has meaning if the "Use CC Year" box is checked.

    executable
    Generally, this can be left alone. For AppFinder (top) version, this will tell Qube! to look for After Effects on the Worker. For the non-AppFinder (bottom) version, this is the explicit path to the executable. Note that in this case, it will be OS-dependent and won't work for jobs submitted between OS X and Windows.

    Project File
    Path to the After Effects project (required)

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    Composition

    Tooltip - The Composition to render

    (required if specifying frame range or other overrides listed below)

    Enter the numeric value to override scene render queue index settings.

    Leave at the default unless you are an advanced After Effects user. For more information, see the After Effects documentation.

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    Composition
    If the comp is in the render queue already, and in a queueable state, then (only) the first queueable instance of that comp on the render queue will be rendered. If the comp is in the project but not in the render queue, then it will be added to the render queue and rendered. If no -comp argument is provided, aerender will render the entire render queue as is. In this case (no -comp), the only other arguments used will be -project, -log, -v, -mem_usage, and -close; the -RStemplate, -OMtemplate, -output, -s, -e, and -i arguments will be ignored.

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     Leave at the default unless you are an advanced After Effects user. For more information, see the After Effects documentation.

     

    Render Queue Index
    Tooltip - specifies Specifies a render queue item to be rendered. Options that make sense when rendering a single render queue item are available like with the -comp flag.

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    Enter the numeric value to

    These values override scene memory usage settings.

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    Render Settings
    Tooltip - the name of a template to apply to the render queue itemRender Settings are normally set in the After Effects file itself, but can be overridden here. If the template does not exist it is an error.Default is to use the render template already defined for the item. Can only set if Composition option specified

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    Output Module

    Tooltip - name of a template to apply to the output module. If the template   This can only be set if the Composition option is specified.

    Output Module
    Output Modules are normally set in the After Effects file itself, but can be overridden here.  If the module does not exist it is an error. Default is to use the template already defined for the output module. Can only set if Composition option specified NOTENote : Distributing a render across multiple machines requires image sequence output. That is usually best set in the AfterEffects Project or the Output File Path override.

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    Important: when choosing the output format be aware that extensions such as .MOV or .AVI can not be distributed across the farm. Please select an image sequence based format such as .TIF etc

    Output File Path
    Tooltip - Specifying the destination render file. Default is the path already in the project Override the output file specified in the After Effects file. For image sequences (the preferred method for distributed rendering) use # to denote frames. For example: /Volumes/Stuff/output/proj1/frames[####].psd. Can only be set if the Composition option is specified.

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    Browse or manually enter the location of the output image directory you wish to generate

    Important: Best practise is to ensure outputs are written to network storage accessible by the workers

    Memory Usage

    Tooltip - (image_cache_percent max_mem_percent) where image_cache_percent specifies Memory Usage
    Takes two numerical values, separated by a space, that indicate maximum cache percentage and maximum memory percentage to use, respectively. The cache percentage is the maximum percent of memory used to cache already rendered images/footage, and max_mem_percent the memory percentage specifies the total percent of memory that can be used by After Effects.

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    Choose the level of detail you would like the logs to provide.

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    Verbosity

    Tooltip - specifies the type of messages reported

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