Yo Ryan!
Long time no see! We are having some issues over here at Encore. I dun broke me some After Effects.
Version of Deadline: Deadline 5 RC1
Operating System: OSX 10.5.8
Rendering Application: AE CS5
Reproduce: Basically the problem seems to be Deadlines ability to handle a 6 digit frame range. I attached a partially sanitized error below. Seems like an easy enough fix? I imagine it is just a frame range variable buffer overflow.
0: INFO: Render Argument: -project "/<path here>" -comp "<comp here>" -s 885791 -e 885791 -output "/blah.dpx" -mp
0: INFO: Startup Directory: "/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5"
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: WARNING:After Effects warning: timeSpanStart of -0 seconds will cause render to have frames outside of range defined by comp displayStartTime (36944.91) and end of comp duration (36951.08). Render will succeed, but may have blank frames.
0: STDOUT: aerender Error: After Effects error: Value 0.04 out of range 0.04 to 89568056.
Hey Joe!
Good to hear from you again!
I’m not sure if Deadline is the cause of the problem or if it’s just the messenger. Deadline just runs an aerender command line to perform the render, and it looks like that error is coming directly from AE. Also, based on the command line arguments, Deadline is passing the 6 digit frame range properly.
The easiest way to determine if Deadline is the problem or not is to open a terminal on the slave machine that the error is occurring on and run the same command line that Deadline is using. For example:
/path/to/aerender -project "/<path here>" -comp "<comp here>" -s 885791 -e 885791 -output "/blah.dpx" -mp
As you’ve noticed already, you can grab the render executable path and command line arguments from the job log, so it’s easy to figure out what you need to run from the terminal. If you get the same error, then we can rule out Deadline. If it works from the terminal, then we can investigate further.
Cheers,
Ok, found part of the problem, AE CS5 doesn’t work on any version of Windows below Vista.