Errors when running multiple parallel tasks on renderer with after effects
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 10:00 am
Hi,
I succeeded to configure afanasy to execute multiple tasks in parallel on a single renderer (using 'capacity' configurations).
The renderer executes after effects and runs on windows.
For the experiment I set "maxtasks":2 (and I see 2 tasks are starting in parallel on the same renderer).
Now the first task executed successfully while the second task fails (the scenario is easily reproducible).
In order to be sure it is possible to run 2 after effects render processes in parallel I run corresponding task commands manually on the render machine and it successfully executed.
The commands are:
aerender -project "c:\rendering-templates\BooingMiss\booing_miss.aep" -mp -s 0 -e 49 -i 1 -mp -comp "Frequent flyer main" -RStemplate "Best Settings" -output "C:\\rendering-outputs\\frames\\frame_[#####].jpg"
aerender -project "c:\rendering-templates\BooingMiss\booing_miss.aep" -mp -s 50 -e 99 -i 1 -mp -comp "Frequent flyer main" -RStemplate "Best Settings" -output "C:\\rendering-outputs\\frames\\frame_[#####].jpg"
In output of failed task (in afanasy watch) I see:
After Effects warning: Invalid menu operation.
After Effects can't continue: unexpected failure during application startup
Please help.
How can I debug what is going on?
I succeeded to configure afanasy to execute multiple tasks in parallel on a single renderer (using 'capacity' configurations).
The renderer executes after effects and runs on windows.
For the experiment I set "maxtasks":2 (and I see 2 tasks are starting in parallel on the same renderer).
Now the first task executed successfully while the second task fails (the scenario is easily reproducible).
In order to be sure it is possible to run 2 after effects render processes in parallel I run corresponding task commands manually on the render machine and it successfully executed.
The commands are:
aerender -project "c:\rendering-templates\BooingMiss\booing_miss.aep" -mp -s 0 -e 49 -i 1 -mp -comp "Frequent flyer main" -RStemplate "Best Settings" -output "C:\\rendering-outputs\\frames\\frame_[#####].jpg"
aerender -project "c:\rendering-templates\BooingMiss\booing_miss.aep" -mp -s 50 -e 99 -i 1 -mp -comp "Frequent flyer main" -RStemplate "Best Settings" -output "C:\\rendering-outputs\\frames\\frame_[#####].jpg"
In output of failed task (in afanasy watch) I see:
After Effects warning: Invalid menu operation.
After Effects can't continue: unexpected failure during application startup
Please help.
How can I debug what is going on?