Return-Path: Received: from omr17.networksolutionsemail.com ([205.178.146.67] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4617062 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:30:55 +0100 Received: from cm-omr11 (mail.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.50]) by omr17.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q15KapMA002306 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:36:52 -0500 Authentication-Results: cm-omr11 smtp.user=torno@sydefxink.com; auth=pass (CRAM-MD5) X-Authenticated-UID: torno@sydefxink.com Received: from [75.51.170.154] ([75.51.170.154:36175] helo=[10.0.1.3]) by cm-omr11 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.41 r(31179/31189)) with ESMTPA id 79/F5-01997-368EE2F4; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:36:51 -0500 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[AE]_AE_=C2=96_Render_while_you_work?= References: From: David Torno Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-9D34E149-4581-4AD9-899C-C61CC7892B35 X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9A334) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:36:48 -0800 To: After Effects Mail List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) --Apple-Mail-9D34E149-4581-4AD9-899C-C61CC7892B35 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Now... if you could copy paste between them... ha. That would be miraculou= s.=20 Don't see why you couldn't. Especially if it's a cloned app. Nothings differ= ent. Plus copy/paste gets stored on the system, not app I thought. :) David Torno Visual Effects Artist & Supervisor http://www.ghosttownmedia.com O: 213.739.2290 C: 818.391.6060 --------------------- http://www.sydefxink.com http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com http://mactex.blogspot.com "The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" -Charles Field On Feb 5, 2012, at 12:16 PM, jayse Hansen wrote: > Been using Nucleo for quite a while - now on BG renderer - but this tip so= unds cool for other things - I didn't know you could work on two different p= roject files at the same time. Actually might come in handy. Now... if you c= ould copy paste between them... ha. That would be miraculous. =20 >=20 > // jayse >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Hey Robert, I don't want to embarrass you, but that's been possible on Mac= s ever since OSX came out. As other's have pointed out, Lloyd's Background R= ender script, and AME are even more elegant solutions at this point in time f= or Ae. >=20 > But, it may interest you to know that your core idea still has value. Wh= en I transcode DSLR footage to ProRes, I use a duplicated instance of MPEG S= treamclip. Both instances are set to use 4 processes, and when I do batch t= ranscodes, this will max out all 8 cores of my MacPro, making the overall pr= ocess go much faster. >=20 > And hey, keep the tips coming. I've picked up so many great ones from thi= s list. Actually, I got your tip about five years ago on this very list, an= d used to employ it regularly, until Nucleo Pro, and then the Background Ren= der script replaced it. >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Feb 4, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Red Truck wrote: >=20 > > Just wanted share this nifty After Effects/Mac trick I picked up this we= ek. > > > > Want to keep working in AE while waiting for a render to complete? > > I was watching another editor versioning titles for a promo with AE on a= MacPro. He set one version of titles to render then launched a SECOND appli= cation of AE on the same machine and proceeded to work on the next set of ti= tles while the first set was rendering. He continued to bounce between the t= wo AE applications as each set of renders completed. > > > > The trick? He had simply DUPLICATED the AE program in the Applications f= older. With two separate short cuts in the dock linked to each copy of AE, h= e was able to run two versions of the same AE at the same time. The only com= plaint the Mac had with the second launch was that =E2=80=9Cthe Application h= ad moved=E2=80=9D. Ignore this warning and you're good to go. Who knew? Mayb= e you did but it was a wow moment for me. > > > > Robert Alsop@ > > Red Truck > > Toronto CA > > Video To Go! > > > > >=20 >=20 > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to >=20 --Apple-Mail-9D34E149-4581-4AD9-899C-C61CC7892B35 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
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Now... if you could c= opy paste between them... ha. That would be miraculous. 
Don't see why you couldn't. Especially if it's a cloned app. Noth= ings different. Plus copy/paste gets stored on the system, not app I thought= . :)

David Torno
Visual Effects Artist & Supervisor
http://www.ghosttownmedia.com=
O: 213.739.2290
C: 818.391.6060
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"The most useless day is that in wh= ich we do not laugh"
-Charles Field

On Feb 5, 2= 012, at 12:16 PM, jayse Hansen <mo= grapher@gmail.com> wrote:

Been using Nucleo for quite a while - now on BG renderer - but t= his tip sounds cool for other things - I didn't know you could work on two d= ifferent project files at the same time. Actually might come in handy. Now..= . if you could copy paste between them... ha. That would be miraculous. = ;

// jayse




On Sun, Feb 5, 20= 12 at 9:44 AM, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:



On Feb 4, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Red Truck wrote:

> Just wanted share this nifty After Effects/Mac trick I picked up this w= eek.
>
> Want to keep working in AE while waiting for a render to complete?
> I was watching another editor versioning titles for a promo with AE on a= MacPro. He set one version of titles to render then launched a SECOND appli= cation of AE on the same machine and proceeded to work on the next set of ti= tles while the first set was rendering.  He continued to bounce between= the two AE applications as each set of renders completed.
>
> The trick?  He had simply DUPLICATED the AE program in the Applica= tions folder. With two separate short cuts in the dock linked to each copy o= f AE, he was able to run two versions of the same AE at the same time. The o= nly complaint the Mac had with the second launch was that =E2=80=9Cthe Appli= cation had moved=E2=80=9D. Ignore this warning and you're good to go. Who kn= ew? Maybe you did but it was a wow moment for me.
>
> Robert Alsop@
> Red Truck
> Toronto CA
> Video To Go!
>
>


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