@fg27 apologies for the long delay in responding. I’ve never seen that error in connection with Templater. Which version of AE and Templater are you using? What about any other 3rd party effects applied to layers? Are you replicating internally to the project to make new folders/comps within the existing project file, or are you replicating to individual AEP files for Media Encoder to render? We’d need to see more of a sample of the data and the full templater.log file. You can submit a support ticket with any relevant attachments.

Hi…I utilize a comparable methodology while making client docs. I start by archiving the fundamental item, then, at that point, add the varieties. I utilize contingent labels to distinguish content for a particular yield. I likewise make preparing materials utilizing a comparative methodology.

Assuming the variety is theme based, ie there is a distinction in subjects utilized in the material, I then, at that point, utilize diverse TOCs to construct the yield. Sometimes I utilize a mix of the two methods, for instance preparing material does exclude every one of the points so utilizes a seperate TOC, and has its own restrictive labels to control content inside the subjects.

I additionally use conditions for on the web/print renditions. The print form incorporates screen captures, yet I don’t utilize numerous screen captures for online conveyance (except if I need the client to see what the screen should resemble). Very little point having screen captures on the off chance that the client has the program open.

@johnsyounger

After doing a little digging, I don’t think that Adobe Media Encoder has the flexibility to do what you’re suggesting here. As near as I can tell, the Output folder must be different from the Watch Folder. This appears to be necessary since AME will grab any valid video file in the Watch Folder. So if the Output was the same as the Watch Folder, the rendered video files would end up being processed again, output to the Watch Folder, and then re-rendered over and over.

As for the Source files, I just don’t see any options provided by Adobe to delete them after the video has been processed. This appears to be a limitation of the software in general. Given these factors, I don’t think it’s going to be possible to customize AME to perform the way you’re describing. It might be possible to create a more complex render system using a third-party render software or a command-line incantation with some added scripting, but that’s going to be a much more involved process. Let us know if you have any additional questions, and we’ll do whatever we can to get you up and running. Thanks!

@johnsyounger

Absolutely! Any additional folders you add to the syntax in the output column will be created automatically when Templater runs. You can find more information in this article and if you have any other questions, please just let us know!

@pbretz Are all machines looking at the same worksheet within one Sheet? How many items were being queued at once on each machine?

Thanks Jeff! Looking forward to the next version of Templater.

@pbretz It’s probably difficult to do without some kind of math if your timeline is moving around a lot, but since you can pass data values to be arguments in an event script incantation, you could pass a time/timecode value into a script to extract key frames as stills using the above mentioned methods.

@darrencase also, it might be helpful to watch this video to see a demonstration of how comp swapping works, to hopefully make it clearer.

Previewing with Templater's Data Transport

@rens Unfortunately AE’s API access to the character palette is extremely limited, so your best bet would be to create a pre-job script that copies your master AEP and opens the project in AE, to run Templater off of the copy instead of the master. This will leave your master always untouched. In the instance that a missing glyph breaks one project, it won’t break all of the subsequent projects. You could also try running an ExtendScript that updates the font on that layer on the post-update event every time, but I think that could be more problematic.

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@ariestav Thanks! We will try grabbing the PID.