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AfterFX Addon - 0.1.2

AfterEffects settings​

There is a couple of settings that could configure publishing process for AfterEffects. All of them are Project based, eg. each project could have different configuration.

Location: ayon+settings://aftereffects/publish

AfterEffects Project Settings

Publish plugins​

Collect Review​

Enable/disable collecting reviews. If disabled, no review will be created at all.

Validate Scene Settings​

Skip Resolution Check for Tasks​

Set regex pattern(s) to look for in a Task name to skip resolution check against values from DB.

Skip Timeline Check for Tasks​

Set regex pattern(s) to look for in a Task name to skip frameStart, frameEnd check against values from DB.

Validate Containers​

Checks if all imported assets to the workfile through Loader are in latest version. Limits cases that older version of asset would be used.

If enabled, artist might still decide to disable validation for each publish (for special use cases). Limit this optionality by toggling Optional. Active toggle denotes that by default artists sees that optional validation as enabled.

AfterEffects Submit to Deadline​

  • Use Published scene - Set to True (green) when Deadline should take published scene as a source instead of uploaded local one.
  • Priority - priority of job on farm
  • Primary Pool - here is list of pool fetched from server you can select from.
  • Secondary Pool
  • Frames Per Task - number of sequence division between individual tasks (chunks) making one job on farm.