Adobe Creative Cloud 2014?

Deadline
1

Hey all, is there a work around for getting CC 2014 to work with the current release of Deadline?

Thanks!

Vaughn

2

Im wondering the same thing.

I altered this file:

[repository path]\plugins\AfterEffects\AfterEffects.param to include this:

[RenderExecutable13_0]
Type=multilinemultifilename
Label=After Effects CC 2014 Render Executable
Category=Render Executables
CategoryOrder=0
Index=10
Default=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2014\Support Files\aerender.exe;/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/aerender
Description=The path to the After Effects CC 2014 executable file used for rendering. Enter alternative paths on separate lines.

doing similar things has enabled me to get things like Nuke running in the past, but this isnt working now. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

3

So the steps for this are pretty much the same steps with a few tweaks as one of our users wrote up for maya 2015 in Deadline 6.1(viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11729&p=51479&hilit=dlinit#p51479) so I would start with adapting those changes to the After Effects plugin files. I think you are only missing one or two of the needed steps to make it work, but you are on the right path. Please note that changing these files is not something supported by Thinkbox.

4

AWESOME! Thanks for the info:

So - Step by Step - This is what i did. I can only confirm that this submission works when you use the Submit to Deadline Script from AfterEffects CC 2014 to Deadline. (although CC 2014 does show up as an option inside monitor to submit an AE job, but I haven’t tested that.)

To get Deadline 6.2 to render AfterEffects CC 2014 you need to edit 3 files in your Repository:

DeadlineRepository6\scripts\AfterEffectsSubmission.py
DeadlineRepository6\plugins\AfterEffects\AfterEffects.dlinit
DeadlineRepository6\plugins\AfterEffects\AfterEffects.param

AfterEffectsSubmission.py:
Search for VersionBox, or mine was at line 136. Here - add ,“CC2014” (all one line):

versionBox = scriptDialog.AddComboControl( “VersionBox”, “ComboControl”, “CS6”, (“CS3”,“CS4”,“CS5”,“CS5.5”,“CS6”, “CC”, “CC2014”), dialogWidth - labelWidth - 24 - 240, -1 )

AfterEffects.dlinit:
Add the following after the RenderExecutable12_0 entry (all one line):

RenderExecutable13_0=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2014\Support Files\aerender.exe;/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/aerender

(NOTE: My office doesn’t have a x86 version of AE CC 2014, so i didn’t add (x86 is included in previous render executables). I actually don’t think there is a x86 version of the program anyway)

AfterEffects.param:
Add the following after the entries for CC ("[RenderExecutable12_0]"):

[RenderExecutable13_0]
Type=multilinemultifilename
Label=After Effects CC 2014 Render Executable
Category=Render Executables
CategoryOrder=0
Index=10
Default=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2014\Support Files\aerender.exe;/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/aerender
Description=The path to the After Effects CC 2014 executable file used for rendering. Enter alternative paths on separate lines.

After all of this - AE submitted to Deadline just fine.

Hope it helps!

5

That works great! Thanks so much!

Vaughn