Mar 17, 2010
labs: AERender (AE render droplet for OS X). . .
Just like the MayaRender app, but for After Effects. A quick and easy way to launch AE renders without using the resources necessary to load up the After Effects UI and load each preview frame into memory. Plus this gives you the ability to launch multiple renders at once if you so choose.
Essentially just another way to render in the background (inspired by Lloyd Alvarez’s great BG Render script on aescripts.com), but without ever having to open AE. Render speeds should also be slightly quicker this way as well since no resources are used by the app and only the render engine.
Demo:
Here is a quick demo of the AERender & AEae apps (both available in the “labs” section of this site.
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CS6? Bump!
Hi,
To get this script working in CS6:
1. Command-click the ‘AERender’ app
2. Select ‘Show Package Contents’
3. Navigate to ‘Contents->Resources->Script’
4. Double-click ‘main.scpt’ to open the script in AppleScript Editor
5. Replace path ‘/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5/aerender’ with ‘/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/aerender’
6. Save
7. Done!
Sorry, correction:
Step 1. CONTROL-click the ‘AERender’ app
This man speaks the truth! Sorry I haven’t had time to update this, extremely busy recently
Some fine wisdom here. For Creative Cloud users, it also seems to work with After Effects CC. There’s just a small difference in what you change the path to, namely:
“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC/aerender”
Hey PJ Palomaki
I cannot find the path /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5/aerender’ …
This is what he shows me:
(*
[AErender v1.1…]
-Drop the project file you would like to render onto this applet and whatever is configured in the Render Queue of that project file will begin
rendering in Terminal.
This is not a queueing app. This is a stand alone droplet that will startup seperate renders for any files dropped onto it. For queueing you can use my RenderQ app.
2014.01.10 – v1.1
-universal version
-custom shell color settings
2010.05.01 – v1.0
-developed basic functionality
*)
–Set Double-Click behavior. . .
on run
checkForPrefs()
set dropped_items to choose file with prompt “Select the projects to render:” of type {“aep”} with multiple selections allowed
AErender(dropped_items)
end run
–Set drag and drop behavior. . .
on open (dropped_items)
checkForPrefs()
AErender(dropped_items)
end open
–Set Check for prefs behavior. . .
on checkForPrefs()
–Check if preference file exists
set file_name to “com.andorulabs.AErender”
try
do shell script “/usr/bin/defaults read ” & file_name
set prefsExist to true
on error
set prefsExist to false
end try
–If preference file doesn’t exist, create a new one
if prefsExist = false then
–Set location of After Effects
set apps to path to applications folder
set AE_path to choose file with prompt “Where is the After Effects aerender executable located?” default location apps
set app_path to the quoted form of (POSIX path of (AE_path as text))
do shell script “defaults write com.andorulabs.AErender path ” & app_path
end if
end checkForPrefs
–AErender function
on AErender(dropped_items)
repeat with current_item in dropped_items
–Set the project file path
set projectfile_path to the quoted form of (POSIX path of (current_item as text))
–Set the Render Command
set AE_path to quoted form of (do shell script “defaults read com.andorulabs.AErender path”)
set render_cmd to AE_path & ” -sound ON -project ” & projectfile_path
–Launch Render in Terminal
–Terminal Shell Settings
set shell_settings to (path to resource “AERender.terminal” in bundle (path to me)) as string
tell application “Finder” to open file shell_settings
tell application “Terminal”
activate
do script with command render_cmd in front window
tell front window
set custom title to “AERender”
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end AErender
Any help would be great! 🙂
Thanks!
Ellen
Can this script work on a directory? In other words, I have a folder with 80 files in it that all need rendering. Can I use this script to run the render on all the files in the folder? If not, can I get you to enhance this script for my needs? I would be very grateful…($)
Thanks
i did the script change for cs6 and get prompted with this error message every time:
“aerender ERROR: After Effects can not render for aerender. Another instance of aerender, or another script, may be running; or, AE may be waiting for response from a modal dialog, or for a render to complete. Try running aerender without the -reuse flag to invoke a separate instance of After Effects”
any ideas?
Hi,
I have a same error message.
Do you found a soluce to fixe this problem?
Thank you
wow, very usefull thanks a lot !
The script edit does not work. 🙁
When I start AErender it says the script is uncompiled? EDIT or OK?
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This is awesome! Any chance of a PC version in the future?
This is a godsend! Thanks so much Andrew and thank you community for explaining how to make this work with ae cs6.
Hi! i’ve downloaded the cs5 version. When i want to use it, it says file “AERender” is damaged and con’t be opened. You should move it to Trash. I need help, whats wrong with it?
I’m having the same problem. Were you able to solve this? Any info would help. Thanks!
Hi there,
Thank you for your script!
I’ve been using it extensively, but it stopped working for me today. It keeps looking for an older file that I rendered in the past, and not the file that I need to currently render. How would I fix that?
Thanks!
Anyone knows if there is a version that works with Adobe CC?
yes it does, if I recall correctly just had to change name in script =)
Hey!
I installed AErender_v1.1.app , the universal version.
First time you launch it, the app is asking this :
«Where is the After Effects aerender executable located?»
and I don’t know where I should find it.
What ever I pointing to, the Terminal is showing this line :
« /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Adobe After Effects CS6.app/: is a directory »
What should I pointing at?
Thanks
You need to select the “aerender” executable that is nested in the same folder as the After Effects application.
🙂
I can’t find the preferences in OS X 10.9.4 Maverick. I want to delete them but it is not in Macintosh HD/library/preferences/
What do I do? I also check in the main.script but I do not know which lines to change. Help please!!
I did the same mistake, when prompted i pointed to the AE app dander than the aerender.
Is there a plist I can delete so the droplet can work as if launched for the first time?
Thanks
Only 4 years too late! I actually just downloaded this app locally for the first time and accidentally did the same thing when trying to set this up on my macbook pro to work with CC2018. I navigated to the app itself instead of the “aerender” executable file located within the After Effects CC2018 folder. Since I had to just figure this out on my own, figure I’d post what I did so the info is here for the next unlucky soul. Here’s how I reset the app to ask me where the executable was again, so I could get the path right:
1. Right-click (or control-click) the main AErender app
2. Select ‘Show Package Contents’
3. Navigate to ‘Contents->Resources->Script’
4. Double-click ‘main.scpt’ to open the script in AppleScript Editor
5. search “set prefsExist to true”
6. Change “true” to “false”
7. Save and close script editor and then re-open AErender app
8. It should prompt you to navigate to executable file again. This time, navigate to the correct file path: Applications > Adobe After Effects CC 2018 > aerender
6. Save
7. Repeat steps 1-4 to go back into the script you just changed.
8. search “set prefsExist to false”
9. Change the “false” you typed earlier back to “true” (this will prevent AErender from asking you to re-navigate to the executable every time you open it)
10. Save.
11. Done!
This was all I needed to do on my comp to get CC2018 renders going correctly through this app.
I downloaded this but I don’t have a mac I use a windows 7. It doesn’t seem to be working. Is there a way to fix this?
Tks Andrew! Nice work.
Have just one problem: If I select two projects using the aerender app, it will open two terminals and render th ae projects simultaneous.
But in terminal, if I put:
‘/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/aerender’ -sound ON -project ” (the location of project 01)’ ; ‘(the location project 02)’
the two projects will render in sequence. It would be really fantastic if the app could do this.
I download the app but it is not working. I am running –
OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.1 with AE CC Version 13.2
And this is the error that I receive upon loading my AE file into the app…
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GR02:~ gr02$ ‘/Users/gr02/Desktop/XXXX_Sc00_Sh00_1920X1080_24fps_MSTR_v01.aep’ -sound ON -project ‘/Users/gr02/Desktop/XXXX_Sc00_Sh00_1920X1080_24fps_MSTR_v01.aep’
-bash: /Users/gr02/Desktop/XXXX_Sc00_Sh00_1920X1080_24fps_MSTR_v01.aep: Permission denied
GR02:~ gr02$
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Is there a windows version of this?
Hi Andrew,
Thank you so much for this plugin, I have been using it ever since I’m using AE CS5.
But it seems to have issue with AE CC2014 v13, it worked up to AE CC v12
Here is the error message from terminal
After Effects error: The file you are attempting to open was created with After Effects version 13.2 (Macintosh 64) and cannot be opened with this version.
is there are new version or a way which I can fix this issue?
Hi,
I’ve been using aerender for two years, it’s soooo useful.
I just upgraded to CC and I can’t get it to work.. 🙁
I went through the comment in this page, but no luck…
Any cues?
I think we are on the same boat, It stills works with CC 2013 to me just not CC2014
there are a work around for me, I try to save the .aep file down to CC2013 v12, then it would worked for me.
I finally got it to work on CC2014 (first delete prefs, then I installed it in the AFX folder (actually it might just have been the prefs)) Also, I did not pay attention the first time I got prompted to select the aerender exec file…
Now it works like a charm!!!
Pretty website by the way!
I tried getting this to work for CC 2015 but haven’t had any luck. I opened up the coding in apple scripts editor and didn’t see anywhere where I could update the language. Anyone get this to work with cc 2015?
Hey
Does anyone have trouble rendering Ray Traced 3D scene with AE Render?
Does is support this feature?
I did and I’m stuck on that. I will have to render in the old skool way. :/
Has someone got this to work with CC 2015? Thanks.
To make the script work, you have to:
– Navigate to ‘Contents->Resources->Script’
– Double-click ‘main.scpt’ to open the script in AppleScript Editor
– find com.andorulabs.AErender (it should be 3 times in the script file)
– add a number at the end of each occurence, like: com.andorulabs.AErender1 (or com.andorulabs.AErender2)
This will force the app to create a new preference file, and on the next run it will ask you to navigate to the aerender in the Adobe After Effects folder.
Hi Andrew!
I heard a lot of good feedback about AErender. So would be nice to get it working!
My question is :could you write detailed step-by-step instructions from the moment of download: how to install it, activate and make it work, please? All the directories, scripts, etc.
Would be helpful to a lot of people, I am sure:-)
Thanks!
Anyone got this working on adobe2017 cc?
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