From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from nail.lmi.net ([66.117.140.18] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.0) with ESMTPS id 6363407 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:49:40 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [12.42.42.62]) by nail.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B01E0E437F for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:53:20 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] New AE script- Rendergarden In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:53:02 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Nov 28, 2017, at 3:37 PM, Greg Balint wrote: > Can anyone comment as to how it splits things up and where those = "split projects" go? Are the split projects and renders just temporary, = or do they need to remain somewhere?=20 >=20 > Also, am I only limited to the render options in stock ae? Or could I = use something like AfterCodecs in tandem with this? Does it render out = uncompressed files first and then stitch them together using the final = file format? Or does it recompress over an already lossy codec if that's = what you choose to output? First of all, you can download and run it for free for 7 days, so give = it a shot and many of your questions will be answered. When you "Plant the Seeds", RenderGarden makes folders in your "Seed = Bank" for each queued item in your render queue. Inside each of these = is typically a copy of your project, which will be used for rendering = that job. There is also a subfolder in there to hold the segments of = your movies before they are combined into the final version. The Seed Bank is like your other cache folders in that you should feel = free to trash its contents when there's no more rendering going on. Or = even if there is rendering happening, you can delete anything not being = used. If you delete folders that are being used, that will kill the = render, which maybe was your intention anyway. You should theoretically be able to render anything through RenderGarden = that you could render in the standard render queue, which should include = AfterCodecs. If you find anything that has problems, let us know, = although those issues are typically either a bug in AE or the plug-in = developer, since everything is supposed to be able to be rendered on the = command line. BTW, RenderGarden has an option to create an H.264 or ProRes movie as a = post-process after the AE output has been completed. Like AfterCodecs, = it uses FFmpeg to do this. Unlike AfterCodecs, RenderGarden can do a = two-pass H.264 encode. Brendan