We are doing some testing on optimizing our farm and testing different configurations for After Effects rendering. We had originally broken 2 nodes into individual slaves representing each processor core (1-8 core, 1-24 core). In our testing we have a test job that rendered just fine. I resubmitted the job, changing the output path and machine limited it to a single slave that used all processor cores.This rendered just fine as well. We did this on the two different machines. I reconfigured the slaves back to their individual processor=1 slave configuration and resubmitted the job (again changing the output path and machine limits). These jobs now complete (nearly) instantaneously with nothing output and no errors. The job log is below from one of the jobs (both have the same basic log):
0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: TESTING AE1 ALL CPU’s (53f68f873b6b9906ec696ada)
0: Skipping drive mapping because they have already been mapped for this job
0: INFO: Executing plugin script C:\Users\renderhoff\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\MBA-RENDER-AE1-AE4\plugins\53f68f873b6b9906ec696ada\AfterEffects.py
0: INFO: Fail on Existing After Effects process: 0
0: INFO: About: After Effects Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 7
0: INFO: Stdout Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Popup Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Using Process Tree: True
0: INFO: Hiding DOS Window: True
0: INFO: Creating New Console: False
0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC\Support Files\aerender.exe”
0: INFO: Multi Machine Mode enabled
0: INFO: Argument: -project “C:\Users\renderhoff\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\MBA-RENDER-AE1-AE4\jobsData\53f68f873b6b9906ec696ada\WDRS5_Summer-tp-v08-MBA.aep” -comp “CASTLE PREVIZ” -output “\mba_assets\staff_folders\JoelH\renderoutput\AE Testing Paris\AE1 only ALL CPU’s\Seq5v08.[#####].jpg”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC\Support Files”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: aerender version 12.2.1x5
0: STDOUT: has video RAM(MB): 0
0: STDOUT: LoadLibrary “n” failed!
0: STDOUT: LoadLibrary “n” failed!
0: STDOUT: LoadLibrary “n” failed!
0: STDOUT: LoadLibrary “n” failed!
0: STDOUT: Unable to execute script at line 1. Syntax error
0: INFO: Process exit code: 0
0: INFO: Skipping output file size check because a specific comp isn’t being rendered or Multi-Machine rendering is enabled
I am not sure why these jobs wont work. The original job renders just fine and has done so multiple times. All I have changed is the output path and the machine limit.
I thought it maybe had to do with the original After Effects defined output path so I cleared that of the previous render and still got the same result = no output, no errors.
This same behavior is also happening for a single user here as well. Whenever he submits a job from his workstation (Mac OSX) his jobs complete immediately. If I open his project on my workstation (Windows) and change the output path to a windows path, it renders just fine. Not sure if they are the same issue but they exhibit the same behavior.
Any pointers on this are greatly appreciated.