@Junior The JSON files that Templater generates in that folder can be ignored. They aren’t relevant to what you’re doing. You will want to still remove any that got imported into the Project panel in your AEP file, as those can cause errors.

You can have the project file and the replicated AEP files or videos in separate locations. The two are independent. In addition, you can also have the AME watch folder be in a completely different location from AME’s output folder. AME defaults to sorting the files it is processing into a source and an output folder within the main destination that you are watching, but you can set those to be separated.

@Tasnadi-Otto Hi! I replied to your other thread about the scaling issue, which is resolved in 2.9.6. We do not recommend using older versions of Templater, and if you are using it with Google Sheets, versions prior to 2.9.5 will stop working entirely with that data source in the near future. We don’t offer the older versions for download any longer.

If you still need 2.9.1, the Windows installer would be included in the same zip archive as the MacOS one, so if you still have access to that in your MacOS downloads folder, you could get it that way. If you don’t still have access to that original download, it looks like you purchased through aescripts-- you can log into your account and go to your downloads section. From there, I believe it will allow you to download the original version you purchased, as well as the most recent version released. I don’t believe that their site offers intermediate versions, only the first and last ones.

@Tasnadi-Otto Is the precomp exactly square? If it is, if you add 1 px to the width of the precomp, does that resolve the issue?

There was a bug in older versions of Templater in the way that crop and fill were calculating depending upon whether or not the source footage was portrait, landscape, or square, as well as whether or not the precomp was portrait, square, or landscape, The scaling bug is fixed in 2.9.6. In 2.9.6, it should behave correctly regardless of which orientation the footage or source are, and you also wouldn’t need to add the extra 1px for square comps.

@TYR

Render Boss can certainly be used to process Templater output files on different machines in order to speed up rendering! Although we haven’t done abundant testing with them, most common AE rendering solutions like RenderGarden or BGRenderer should also work with Templater. Templater can be configured to render through After Effects or to create replicated .aep files that can be passed off to other software render solutions. Hopefully, that should get you started but if you have any further questions, please just let us know. Thanks!

@TYR

Thanks for getting in touch with us. After doing a bit of research, I don’t think there would be any problem running After Effects with Templater on a PaperSpace instance. From what I can see, PaperSpace appears to be a virtual remote system service. As long as it’s able to run AE, I think you should be able to run Templater. The main difference between something like PaperSpace and AWS is really going to come down to flexibility. AWS seems to have a much more diverse selection of different system types depending on what kind of work you’re doing. I also noticed that PaperSpace seems to incline towards hourly pricing. If you’re planning on running an instance of Templater Bot, that’s constantly monitoring a data source, that could get pricey.

As far as installation goes, you will need to contact Adobe to get approval to run After Effects on a cloud-based configuration. That’s just a limitation of the EULA for After Effects. When it comes to installation, a lot of it will depend on exactly how you’re going to have Templater configured. We do have some pre-made resources that might help. If you’re interested in exploring those options, I’d recommend contacting us directly at sales@dataclay.com to discuss pricing and availability. If you have any other questions, please just let us know! Thanks!

Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for your thorough feedback. After reviewing the options you’ve presented, I think I will use Zapier - As I’m a bit of a coding novice, it seems like the easiest solution for me to deploy.
I will check back in if I have any hurdles with Templater and the Bot in the process.
I appreciate your help!

Tom

Thank you for the detailed response. I got word we are licensed for bot so once we get that going it should streamline the process!

@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!

@johnsyounger Good to hear it’s working. Yeah, we have done some tests with Mr. Horse’s Animation Composer and have found that you have to dig deep into the comps that it creates and apply the Templater Settings effect to the layers that actually contain the text you want Templater to update. Hope this helps!

I´ve solved the problem. It works when i fill the cell for the visible Layer with {{on}} and don´t leave it blank like in the tutorial. I didn´t find that in the documentation, maybe it should be added.

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

@ariestav I couldn’t attach the templater-event-cmd.bat so I copied the contents into the body of the email with my batch script.

Hi There!

Because you want to stack the layers, and then vertically center the stack, you may need to create a pre-composition of the three layers. Then, in the composition you have showed in your demo, you will want to align the “triple text layer pre-comp” to the right edge of the guide layer.

Please let us know if this helps!