Hi all,
I’m trying to render a simple test scene in AE, and it immediately fails with the following in the error log (excerpt):
The path above is correct though. Rendering locally from AE on the same client works fine, and so is rendering on the command line with aerender.
Any ideas what might be the issue?
Thanks!
Deadline version: v5.1.0.45235 R
Windows 7 Pro SP1
After Effects CS5
A couple questions:
Also, can you post the full error report, as well as the command you’re running when you tested aerender outside of Deadline?
Thanks!
Yes, Deadline is running as a service.
The share is completely open, even for guest access, so there’s no username/password prompt. Error log is attached.
I tried the following commands:
aerender -project "\\bigmomma\bigmomma\TESTING\nothing.aep" -output "\\bigmomma\bigmomma\TESTING\nothing-test\"aerender -project "\\bigmomma\bigmomma\TESTING\nothing.aep" -comp "test" -s 0 -e 0 -output "\\bigmomma\bigmomma\TESTING\nothing-test\test_[#####].tif"(the second one I copied straight from the error log)… both worked fine.
Render010_00000_20110915101556.errorReport (4.62 KB)
Good to know! Is Deadline running as the local system account? If so, I don’t think it has access to UNC paths by default. I would definitely recommend running it as the same account you’re currently logged into the machine as for testing, since you know that account has proper access.
Cheers,
Ah! that did the trick! Thanks 
Surprising though, because it worked in my testing with 3DS Max while running as a system account. I guess AE is just a bit more finicky about that.
Thanks again.