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Render, Email, Incremental Save and Shutdown
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This script is a very basic solution for rendering and email. If you would like a more developed and robust solution then you should consider the BG Renderer: http://aescripts.com/bg-renderer
This script will render all the items in your render queue, send you an email to let you know the render is done, save an incremental version of your project and shutdown the machine. On Mac you can choose to have the machine sleep instead of shutdown.
**This script should be installed in the same folder as the email_methods.jsx and email_setup.jsx scripts that ship with After Effects. Normally this place is in the Scripts folder inside the After Effects application folder.
If you just want to Render and Shutdown (or render and sleep) based on a request over at mograph.net Chris Kelley was kind enough to update the script.
Both scripts are included in the download.
**PLEASE NOTE** Download the latest version if you are using this script with CS4 to avoid a compatibility bug. THIS SCRIPT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH CS5 and above. If you need a render email and shutdown solution for CS5 and above please check out BG Renderer: http://aescripts.com/bg-renderer
version history:
- 02/11 1.2 fixed issues with CS4
- 07/08 1.03 added Render and shutdown only version
- 06/08 1.02 added mac sleep option
- 02/08 1.01 added windows shutdown
- 02/08 1.0 initial release mac only shutdown
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there is an easy way to shutdown computers via the cmd in windows:
shutdown -s -t 30 -c “Render is complete, shutting down… use shutdown -a to cancel”
that cmd will now wait for 30 sec and if you wan to cancel just type:
shutdown -a
(press windowskey+r and write that)
Thanks for that Frank, but in my testing so far that doesn’t work reliably on every machine even though they are all running the same WinXP SP2. I just updated the script to allow easy configuration of the shutdown command in case you want to download the freeware utility that is mentioned on this webpage: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shutcut.php
But in the mean time I’ve set the default to be what you suggest.
Someone pointed out that you can easily have the script send you an SMS text message. You can sign up over at https://www1.teleflip.com/ and have the email converted to an SMS so you can be notified on your mobile phone in case you don’t have access to email
do you guys know how to change the script to: “Render, (Email,) Incremental Save and SLEEP” on a mac (osx 10.5)??
SLEEP instead of SHUTDOWN. that would be awesome.
thanks for the great scripts, benson
Just added the option to sleep on mac. Re-download the script to get the new version.
I have a problem with the email lscript on my mac, i always get ‘Mail not sent’ ‘null is not an object’ error, whether i use this script or the email render script that comes with afx.
Any help much appreciated
i am wonder if there is a way to script afx to email me when a render is complete and also include the path to the render ? or renders.
any ideas
How do you change the Shutdown command to a Sleep command, and will this work with the Background Render using Gridiron Nucleo Pro???
If you open the script in a text editor there are clear instructions on how to change it to sleep. You just need to change the text from shut down to sleep. And no, this will not work if you are using Nucleo.
Hi,
is there an option on the Render_Save_Shutdown script to choose between sleep mode & shut down on windows (vista)? It’s only avaible on mac like I see.
It would be really great. Or could someone just tell me what to change in the script by myself?
Thanks alot!
How to add force shutdown command, sometimes I forgot to close my browser and it never shutdown because it asking me to close or not.. I need to force my mac to shutdown.
Thanks a lot.
I’m getting an error:
“EMailSocket has no constructor”. Anyone know how to fix this?
What version of After Effects are you running and on what OS? Have you entered all your email server details? Also, at what point are you getting that error? The more details you can share the more likely we’ll be able to help you.