Error in AE output script

Deadline
1

Getting an error trying to output h.264 formatted file. I can render perfectly directly from AE, but once I submit job to deadline I get an error (below). Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Job info file:===========
Plugin=AfterEffects
Name=50000006 - My Love - 28
Comment=
Department=
Pool=none
Group=none
Priority=50
TaskTimeoutMinutes=0
EnableAutoTimeout=False
ConcurrentTasks=1
LimitConcurrentTasksToNumberOfCpus=True
Whitelist=
LimitGroups=
JobDependencies=
OnJobComplete=Nothing
MachineLimit=0
Frames=1 - 3745
ChunkSize=99999999

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Comp=Show - 28 Preview
Version=9
IgnoreMissingLayerDependenciesErrors=True
MemoryManagement=False
ImageCachePercentage=100
MaxMemoryPercentage=100
MultiProcess=False
ContinueOnMissingFootage=True
Output=/Volumes/ShowAutomation/AutomationFolders/Previews/50000006.mp4
SceneFile=/Volumes/ShowAutomation/AutomationFolders/Watcher/50000006/50000006.aep

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Log Details

Log Date/Time = Oct 02/10 22:20:46
Frames = 1-3745

Slave Machine = Haley-macpro
Slave Version = v4.1.0.43205 R

Plugin Name = AfterEffects

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Log Message

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: 50000006 - My Love - 28 (999_050_999_7a3bb607)
0: INFO: StartJob: initializing script plugin AfterEffects
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “WARNING:(After Effects warning: .)" will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression "INFO:This project contains .” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “.Error:.” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “aerender ERROR." will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “INFO:(The following layer dependencies are missing)” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression "PROGRESS: [0-9]+[:;][0-9][:;][0-9][:;][0-9].” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “PROGRESS:." will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression ".” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “Motion Sketch” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “The Smoother” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “Time Controls” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “Brush Tips” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “The Wiggler” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “Tracker Controls” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “.After Effects.” will be handled by pressing “OK;Yes”
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “.On-line Registration.” will be handled by pressing “No”
0: INFO: About: After Effects Plugin for Deadline
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1-3745
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: Render Executable: “/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/aerender”
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Render Argument: -project “/Volumes/ShowAutomation/AutomationFolders/Watcher/50000006/50000006.aep” -comp “Show - 28 Preview” -s 1 -e 3745 -output “/Volumes/ShowAutomation/AutomationFolders/Previews/50000006.mp4” -continueOnMissingFootage
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: WARNING:After Effects warning: timeSpanDuration of 156.04 seconds will cause render to have frames outside of range defined by comp displayStartTime (0) and end of comp duration (156.04). Render will succeed, but may have blank frames.
0: STDOUT: aerender Error: After Effects error: this module does not support getting output suffixes

2

It looks like Deadline is just the messenger here. AE prints out a warning, followed by an error, and then exits:

To confirm if Deadline is the cause of this problem or not, can you go to the machine that reported this error, open a Command Prompt, and then run this command:

"/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/aerender" -project "/Volumes/ShowAutomation/AutomationFolders/Watcher/50000006/50000006.aep" -comp "Show - 28 Preview" -s 1 -e 3745 -output "/Volumes/ShowAutomation/AutomationFolders/Previews/50000006.mp4" -continueOnMissingFootage

This is the exact command that Deadline is running in this log, so if you get the same error, then we know that Deadline isn’t the cause of the problem. That will help narrow down the cause of it.

Cheers,

  • Ryan