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Show HN: Nexrender – Data-Driven Render Automation for After Effects

46 points by inlife 7y ago

krmmalik 7y ago
Non-dev here. Could i use something like this to customise an existing kinetic typography AE template and churn out new videos? Also do you know any freelancers that would take on such work?
- inlife 7y ago
  You can customize pretty much any After Effect layer properties, including font, text, colors, etc. So if I understood your question correctly, yeah you can. Regarding freelancers, any Javascript developer should do just fine.
- BubRoss 7y ago
  If you can use Nuke you can make a composit script that can take command line arguments, which makes it very easy to automate.
techaddict009 7y ago
Seems Like you have a solution for something I posted a few mins back as Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240528 If you think your solution can work with modification and you are available for hire let me know will discuss more.
- inlife 7y ago
  It seems to me that this indeed can be done with nexrender. However, most likely you would need a small team of an After Effects template designer, and a junior/middle javascript developer and about 20-40 hours to pull it off. After that, in theory, you can just take existing template and infrastructure, feed it with needed data, including voice synthesized with a different library (it would be the developer's responsibility to find a fitting one), and generate as many total videos as you would need.
yodon 7y ago
Are the worker nodes written in a way that would let them be kicked off by something like OpenCue (or other more comprehensive farm management system), maybe with a small wrapper around them? Or would this need to be run in parallel with its own server and machine allocations?
- inlife 7y ago
  Server machine allocations are not handled. Nexrender can be used in 2 ways: 1. Direct binary form. (creating a start script for a newly launched machine taht will start predefined executable for example) 2. As a custom runtime. Creating a custom executable using nodejs that uses the nexrender as a kind of library, while you handle more high level stuff regarding --- Never heard about OpenCue up to this point, so can't tell you for sure if there is any direct way to implement integration, but I guess theoretically should not be that complicated :)
rothayato 7y ago
If you can use Nuke you can make a composit script that can take command line arguments, which makes it very easy to automate https://www.rottenhayato.com/ https://www.rottenhayato.com/.

46 points by inlife 7y ago

Non-dev here. Could i use something like this to customise an existing kinetic typography AE template and churn out new videos? Also do you know any freelancers that would take on such work?

inlife 7y ago
You can customize pretty much any After Effect layer properties, including font, text, colors, etc. So if I understood your question correctly, yeah you can. Regarding freelancers, any Javascript developer should do just fine.
BubRoss 7y ago
If you can use Nuke you can make a composit script that can take command line arguments, which makes it very easy to automate.

techaddict009 7y ago

Seems Like you have a solution for something I posted a few mins back as Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240528 If you think your solution can work with modification and you are available for hire let me know will discuss more.

inlife 7y ago
It seems to me that this indeed can be done with nexrender. However, most likely you would need a small team of an After Effects template designer, and a junior/middle javascript developer and about 20-40 hours to pull it off. After that, in theory, you can just take existing template and infrastructure, feed it with needed data, including voice synthesized with a different library (it would be the developer's responsibility to find a fitting one), and generate as many total videos as you would need.

yodon 7y ago

Are the worker nodes written in a way that would let them be kicked off by something like OpenCue (or other more comprehensive farm management system), maybe with a small wrapper around them? Or would this need to be run in parallel with its own server and machine allocations?

inlife 7y ago
Server machine allocations are not handled. Nexrender can be used in 2 ways: 1. Direct binary form. (creating a start script for a newly launched machine taht will start predefined executable for example) 2. As a custom runtime. Creating a custom executable using nodejs that uses the nexrender as a kind of library, while you handle more high level stuff regarding --- Never heard about OpenCue up to this point, so can't tell you for sure if there is any direct way to implement integration, but I guess theoretically should not be that complicated :)

rothayato 7y ago

If you can use Nuke you can make a composit script that can take command line arguments, which makes it very easy to automate https://www.rottenhayato.com/ https://www.rottenhayato.com/.