FR: AE multi OS - AUTO - path swap

Deadline
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Hi Guys,

first, thanks again for adding the path-swap option to the current release, highly appreciated!

Unfortunately many of our artists forget to safe their AE file as an .aepx before submitting.

Do you think you could add a checkbox “convert to .aepx during submission” ?
This would save a copy of the current .aep file and sends THIS to the farm…

Thanks!

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Hey Timor,

Sure, we could add that option. There is no “save as” option in AE scripting, which means that if we save the current project as an aepx file instead, the aepx file will still be loaded in AE after the submission finishes. Do you think this is a problem? If it is, I’m sure we could load the original aep file after submission is finished.

What do you think?

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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We experienced a couple of problems when saving as an .aepx (after re-opening, a couple of elements where missing), so we only ever save it as copy…

That being said, i think it would be better/safer to stick to .aep as the standard format.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the heads up about the potential aepx saving issue. This is what we could do:

  1. When the submission script is launched, save the scene to it’s current location (we already do this).
  2. If the aepx option is enabled in the submitter, then we save the scene again to aepx when Submit is pressed.
  3. The job is submitted.
  4. If the aepx option is enabled in the submitter, the original aep file is loaded in AE again.

This way, the artist can keep on working after the job is submitted, because the aep file is loaded again. This should prevent any aepx-related issues.

If you think this will work, let us know.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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…sounds perfect to me!

It also keeps the .aepx issue in the background, the artists don´t have to think about it, it just works…

Maybe you could have this as an option in the repo settings and not in the submitter…(“submit .aepx to the farm”)?
So one can set this as a global setting and the artists don´t even have to think about that (you see i have bad experiences with trusting artist to tick the right checkboxes) :wink:

Thanks, looking forward to having this!
Timor

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We’ve already got this working, but for now it will just be an option in the submitter. There currently isn’t a standard way for submission scripts to pull settings from the plugin settings, and we’d rather not hack that in prior to the upcoming 5.1 bug fix release. This feature though will be included in the bug fix release.

We made the option sticky, so at least it only needs to be set in the submitter once. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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You guys rock!