After Effects - PathTranslation issues

Triad_Admin · November 22, 2018, 2:29pm

Hey guys,

I’m stuck with a weird problem and I can’t figure out if I’m doing something wrong here.

I’m submitting from After Effects (MAC) and the path translation we’ve set works for the project file path but somehow not for the footage path inside the project. Is that even possible?

Path gets translated from
/Volumes/san200/nyx_projekte/…
to
\\nyx\san200\nyx_projekte…

Log example:
CheckPathMapping: Swapped
/Volumes/san200/nyx_projekte/2018/…" with "\\nyx\san200\nyx_projekte/2018/…

This part seems to work.

The render process aborts because of:

WARNING:After Effects warning: logged one error error: Unable to Render: File Not Found /Volumes/san200/nyx_projekte/2018/2018_Siemens_SPS/20_assets/00_footage/09_Aerospace/7796-14-des-aero-film-en-180612-1-7mbit.mp4

(File is there and can also be rendered locally without any issues)

I’ve submitted the same project from a Windows machine and changed the paths inside the file to an UNC path which works without any issues. If this file is linked with a drive letter (S:/nyx_projekte/…) it also fails, project file path translation work flawlessly.

Any hints appriciated.

cmoore · November 23, 2018, 5:03pm

After Effects cross-platform works one of two ways.

The aep file must be on a network accessible share and all assets must be relative (in the same or sub folders) for the slave to resolve their paths.
Submit an aepx file. This does allows us to go through the scene file and replace all of its paths via Deadlines path mapping functionality. Deadline Monitor > Tools > Configure Plugins > Enable Path Mapping for aepx files must be set to true. In the AE Integrated submitter there is an option called “Export XML Project File” this will create an aepx file automatically when submitting to Deadline.

You can find a bit more information about cross-platform AE rendering in our AE plugin document:

https://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/products/deadline/10.0/1_User%20Manual/manual/app-after-effects.html#cross-platform-rendering-considerations

Regards,

Charles