DeadlineRC1: AE Mac to PC - Pathing issues...

[anon40226849]

2 Errors in 1 day? Unpossible!!!

Version of Deadline: Deadline 5 RC1
Submission OS: OSX 10.5.8
Rendering client OS: Windows XP 64
Rendering Application: AE CS5
Reproduce: This problem hasn’t yet been fully realized but it should be easy for you (or anyone) to test out and confirm. We currently have Nuke rendering from OSX over to a Windows XP64 farm and just the Deadline repathing works like a charm. However when we submit an AE job that uses the same pathing (and thus should go through the same replacement) we get some interesting errors. Linked below again.

The maphere is the essentially the remapping, in this case it ALMOST worked properly (there were other issues I have to go back over) but if you notice the slashes…

0: INFO: CheckPathMapping: Swapped "/maphere/maphere/path/path/path/file.dpx" with "\\maphere\maphere\maphere\maphere/path/path/path/file.dpx"

Furthermore, the stuff below also happens… Where we get whole path error returns with the completely original pathing instead of the modified stuff.

0: STDOUT: aerender Error: After Effects error: Unable to Render: File Not Found \path\path\path\path\file.jpg

[rrussell]

Hey Joe,

Have you checked out the Cross Platform Rendering section of the AE documentation?
thinkboxsoftware.com/after-e … iderations

Deadline can only swap the path to the AE project and the output path. It can’t swap the paths of any assets, as they are stored directly in the AE project (which is binary). Keeping the AE project on the network and storing its assets in subfolders is the only way to successfully cross-platform render with After Effects, whether you’re using Deadline or not. In fact, the setup described in our documentation is mostly ripped from the official AE documentation.

It’s different with Nuke because the Nuke files are ASCII, which allows us to walk through the file and do a search & replace.

Hope this helps!

• Ryan

[anon40226849]

Apparently AE CS5 isn’t apparently supposed to work on Windows XP, enroute to upgrading said farm, oh the joy of it.