Watching a forlder for After Effect Files ?

[synxmax]

Hi there,
I just found your awesome tool and it's such a time saver, Already saved me a ton of time
I was playing around trying to make it work in my after effect pipeline
Is it possible to make it watch a folder recursively for ".AEP" ( After effects project ) files and execute a command like :

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aerender.exe -project "%AEP FILE%" -comp "render_1080" -RStemplate "R1080" -OMtemplate "R1080" -v "ERRORS_AND_PROGRESS" -mem_usage 60 10 -output "%OUTPUT"

and after render watch for output folder to transcode ( this part I figure out ) but the first part I have a problem getting it to work since I can't quite understand variable template literals and such

Any help is going to be appreciated,
Thanks in advance

[admin]

Hi synxmax, thank you for using FFAStrans and welcome to the forum!

Just enable 'Recurse' in the monitor and FFAStrans will search in subfolders.

The command should be executed using the "Command executor"-node like this:

%comspec% /c ""%programfiles%\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2019\Support Files\aerender.exe" -project "%s_source%" -comp "render_1080" -RStemplate "R1080" -OMtemplate "R1080" -v "ERRORS_AND_PROGRESS" -mem_usage 60 10 -output "\\server\share\path\to\output""

Of course you need to change your paths (and CC version) to suit your needs

Hope this helps.

-steinar

[synxmax]

Holy Moly Seriously You Guys Rock
I will test it out and let you guys know,

Thank you, Really Appreciate it

[synxmax]

@steinar

Thanks again for the solution, There is one problem, Command gets executed successfully and it seems to render ( cause it takes the exact amount of time if I were to run the command manually ) but there is no output!

I tried to specify the output several ways

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-output "c:\render.mov""
-output "d:\render.mov""
-output "d:\""

I had no luck, command gets executed successfully but not output
Is there something I have to do differently?
I played around with s_source_path and tried different methods to get the output but no luck

[synxmax]

Ok I set aerender to output the log
I get this error :

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aerender ERROR: No render settings template was found with the given name.

When I try to execute from command-line works fine but through FFAStrans seems not working
Trying to investigate more

[synxmax]

Alright SOLVED
You have to run FFAStrans as Administrator and Program Mode, not Service
I don't know If there is a workaround service but It's cool for me

Seems there is a problem with aerender when it's getting called with limited permission it can't parse AEP files

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https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1982647

Thanks again for help with command

[emcodem]

Nice that you figured it out!
I guess it also works to run FFASTrans as service but setting logon credentials to the ones from local administrator.
Also, writing directly on Drives, e.g. C: and D: is by default not possible due to security restrictions; but it should work to write into sub directories, e.g. D:\Files - this might also work when the Windows service is running with default credentials (SYSEM)