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nexrender

📹 Data-driven render automation for After Effects

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Doug

$1,200 USD since Nov 2023

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Benjy Barkes

$400 USD since Apr 2022

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Mackenly Jones

$150.3 USD since Apr 2020

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Ole Kristensen

$100 USD since May 2022

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Joh Kon

$95 USD since Jan 2020

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Jeremy Smith

$80 USD since Aug 2023

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Ron Au

$25 USD since Jul 2022

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J-hiz

$15 USD since May 2020

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Frank Bruns

$10 USD since Jan 2020

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Michael Aubry

$10 USD since Mar 2020

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Luca Knoblich

$10 USD since Apr 2021

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Incognito

$5 USD since Dec 2019

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$5 USD since Sep 2021

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NewFlight

$350 USD since Feb 2020

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Storm 121

$300 USD since May 2020

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Pro Web Ventures

$50 USD since Apr 2020

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Den Frie Vilje

$50 USD since May 2023

nexrender is all of us

Our contributors 18

Thank you for supporting nexrender.

Doug

$1,200 USD

Benjy Barkes

$400 USD

NewFlight

$350 USD

Storm 121

Company Sponsor

$300 USD

Mackenly Jones

Personal Support

$150 USD

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Joh Kon

Personal Support

$95 USD

Great projekt!

Jeremy Smith

Personal Support

$80 USD

Den Frie Vilje

Personal Support

$50 USD

Ron Au

$25 USD

Thank you Vladyslav for your work on this proje...

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Today’s balance

$2,022.56 USD

Total raised

$2,432.09 USD

Total disbursed

$409.53 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,404.90 USD

About


📹 Data-driven render automation for After Effects

nexrender is a simple, small, carefully designed application with the main goal of rendering automation for Adobe After Effects based rendering workflows.

At this point in time, the project is mainly targeted at people at least somewhat comfortable with scripting or development, and that have basic knowledge of the javascript language and json formats.


Features

  • data-driven, dynamic, personalized video rendering
  • automated video management, processing, and delivery
  • network-oriented project structure, render farm
  • highly modular nature, extensive plugin support
  • works only in cli mode, never launches After Effects GUI application
  • does not require licenses for Adobe After Effects on any worker machine
  • free to use and open source

How it works

  • rendering: It uses Adobe After Effects' aerender command-line interface application.
  • compositing: It creates a temporary folder, copies project and replaces assets with provided ones.
  • personalization: It uses AE's expressions, scripting, and compositing (noted above).
  • scheduling: It stores projects in a local database, managed from anywhere using HTTP API.
  • network: It renders project per machine, and can be used to render several projects simultaneously.
  • farm: Can be used to render a single project on several machines via Multi-Machine Sequence


Alternatives

Probably the closest (feature-wise) alternative that exists at the moment is the Dataclay's Templater bot edition. Compared to nexrender it has rich GUI support and a number of enterprise-scale features, however, it is not free.

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