Replicate Project file for rendering with render farm

RonanDL

Hello,

Is it possible for Templater Bot to replicate a composition from a project to a new project file and not initiate a video export?

A project I am about to work on will use a Render Garden render farm to export final assets, and I’m wondering if it’s possible for Templater to delivered versioned project files for each data set in the project.

Thanks in advance!
Ronan

Jeff

@RonanDL

Templater can absolutely create versioned .aep files for use with Render Garden or other third-party render software. If you check the “Send replicates to Adobe Media Encoder (CC Only)” option in the Templater Preferences panel, Templater should create the exact sort of output that you’ve described. It might also be necessary to check the “Remove Templater Settings from replica’s layers” option if you’re going to be processing the files on a system without Templater installed. I’d recommend taking a look at this link for more information, and if you have any other questions, please feel free to let us know. Thanks!

RonanDL

Hey @Jeff, thanks for your reply. I’ll look in to this. To dig just a little deeper into this question… Is it also possible to trigger “Send replicates to Adobe Media Encoder (CC Only)” from an event via a command/ shell/extend script?

Jeff

@RonanDL

If you’re looking to initiate a replication job with Templater based on a trigger, the easiest way would probably be to set up a script to run Templater in CLI configuration. The Command-Line interface for Templater relies on a file named templater-options.json to control all of the various Template Preferences options, so configuring it to replicate to versioned .aep files should be a snap.

On the other hand, if you’re looking to switch between replication and rendering mid-job, that would be a bit trickier. I can think of a few different options that might work, but the easiest would be to use multiple Bots to process the data. You could set one to render and one to replicate and then designate which one the data is sent to using the reserved bot column. Hopefully, that makes sense, but if I can clarify anything, just let me know. Thanks!