zly-u/aebatchrenderingsetup

Customizable After Effects Render setups for pipelines and personal use. WINDOWS ONLY!

Multi-Threaded Render Setup for After Effects

Made for simple rendering without a need of extra hand work and setting up your general rendering pipelines.

!!!Made for sequence rendering only!!!

Curently includes:

• Preset based rendering (Writing down your preset names in the config file)
• Render Queue rendering (selecting Sequence render queue and Audio render queue indexes)
• Adjustable paths
• Adjustable memory usage and Image caching per thread

The rendering consists out of 3 steps:

• Sequence Rendering

• Audio Rendering

• Video Compiling (e.g. combining sequence w/wo audio)

  All of them are optional and can be run separately through different batch files!

Setting up

Requirements:

• FFMPEG

• Aerender.exe - it's in your AE already.

  All the rendering parameters and variables can be changed in _config.bat!

Preparing the setup's components:

1. Add FFMPEG's folder, where its executable at, into PATH Enviroment variable in Windows.

   • If not possible, then add a full path to the program's executable(ffmpeg.exe) into the _config.bat's variable called PATH_TO_FFMPEG

2. Add Aerender's folder, where its executable at, into PATH Enviroment variable in Windows.

   • If not possible, then add a full path to the program's executable(aerender.exe) into the config file's variable called PATH_TO_AERENDER

3. Done.

Params info

All the rendering parameters and variables can be changed in _config.bat!

• It has comments about every parameter in the file, pointing out this info in here just in case.

• Also, do not add additional quotes or delete any from the examples in the config file, also don't add additional spaces at the beginning, and the end of = symbols, it's because BATCH sucks, but I used it so non-programmers bois on Windows could use this thing.

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THREADS

Description: for the amount of threads to be used for the rendering a sequence.

• You can use Env variable %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% to set all of your threads for rendering.
• You can perform some arithmetical operations on the %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% variable e.g. division %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%/2 to use half of your available threads.

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IMAGE_CACHE_PERCENT | PER RENDER INSTANCE!

Description: Image caching in percentage [0-100].

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MAX_MEMORY_PERCENT | PER RENDER INSTANCE!

Description: Max memory usage in percentage [0-100].