AE CS4 - Error Submitting to D6

Mike_Truly · July 3, 2013, 10:17pm

I have installed the submission script into CS4 AE. The script shows up fine in AE… but when I try to run it to submit to D6, I get 2 error dialogs and no submission dialog opens. Attached are screengrabs of the errors.

Thanks!

dwallbridge · July 4, 2013, 4:21pm

Hello Mike,

I was wondering how far through the steps at thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … Submission were you able to get before these errors popped up? Thanks.

Cheers,

Mike_Truly · July 5, 2013, 2:20pm

Since ‘Steps’ generally refer to 1,2,3 or perhaps A, B,C… I see no steps listed on that page. Please be more specific as to the ‘Steps’ you’re referring to.

What I did as referred to on that page is below:

Copy [Repository]\submission\AfterEffects\Client\DeadlineAfterEffectsClient.jsx to [After Effects Install Directory]\Support Files\Scripts - Done.

After starting up After Effects, make sure that under Edit -> Preferences -> General, the Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network option is enabled. This is necessary so that the submission script can create the necessary files to submit to Deadline®. Done.

To submit from within After Effects, select File -> Run Script -> DeadlineAfterEffectsClient.jsx. Errors, no dialog displayed.

Thanks!

rrussell · July 8, 2013, 3:38pm

Hi Mike,

I took a look at line 54 in both the DeadlineAfterEffectsClient.jsx and the SubmitAEToDeadline.jsx files, and I’m stumped as to what would be ‘undefined’ in this case. Is there any chance these files have been modified, or that they’re from an earlier beta version? If you post both files, I can take a look to confirm. Actually, if you just zip up and post your [repo]\submission\AfterEffects folder, that would be great.

Thanks!

Ryan

Mike_Truly · July 9, 2013, 1:13pm

Ryan,

I did not modify the AE submission files in any way. I just copied the submission file over to AE per the setup webpage instructions. Attached is the D6 AE folder zipfile.

Thanks!
deadline6_ae_folder.zip (20.9 KB)

rrussell · July 9, 2013, 7:39pm

Thanks. Yup, this looks exactly what I’m looking at, so the next test is to figure out if the error is occurring in the Client script or the Main script. I’ve attached updated versions of those scripts here. In your repository, rename the AfterEffects folder in [repo]\submission to AfterEffects_bak (so you have a backup). Then unzip the attached file to [repo]\submission (which should put the new AfterEffects folder here). Then install the updated Client script on your workstation and try submitting again.

Under normal circumstances, you should see 3 popups:

About to run main submission script…
Checking render queue for duplicate names…
Duplicate name check finished

Let us know which of these you see before those other errors pop up.

Thanks!

Ryan
deadline6_ae_folder.zip (20.9 KB)

Mike_Truly · July 10, 2013, 2:24pm

OK, now understand what’s wrong… I was using the wrong script in the AE scripts menu to attempt to run the Submit After Effects to Deadline dialog.

After installing everything properly, when I went to fire up the dialog from within AE CS4, I went to the Scripts menu and there at the bottom was ‘SubmittoDeadline.jsx’. Naturally, I intuitively thought that with this name, this was the script that started the dialog. It gave the errors. I’m assuming this is left over from an earlier version of Deadline? Can I delete this SubmittoDeadline.jsx script or is it needed?

When I run the proper script ‘DeadlineAfterEffectsClient.jsx’… the dialog opens fine. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks!

Mike_Truly · July 10, 2013, 2:42pm

One other note on this.

It seems to be working fine but there is one aspect that could work better for me as a future wish.

If I have an AE project named ‘particle_net_COMP_01’ and multiple comps within the project named ‘particle_net_COMP_A’ and particle_net_COMP_B’, etc… I end up with job names in D6 like:

particle_net_COMP_01 - particle_net_COMP_A
particle_net_COMP_01 - particle_net_COMP_B
etc.

On the surface, this seems logical. But for me (since I stare at seemingly endless bits of info across multiple screens all day)… simpler would be better. It would be great if there was an option to use just the comp name as the job name such as:

particle_net_COMP_A
particle_net_COMP_B
etc.

Just a wish.

Thanks again.

rrussell · July 10, 2013, 4:49pm

Glad you figured out the problem, and yes, the SubmitToDeadline.jsx script is from Deadline 5 and can be removed.

We’ll add your request to the wishlist. It should just be a matter of adding a checkbox to the submission window.

Cheers,

Ryan