Anyone using GridIron NucleoPro 3 with cs5/cs6 please?

Question

hello,  this is probably digging up bones from the past
however, are there any users using GridIron NucleoPro 3 with cs5/cs6?
just wanting to chitchat about it if possible
thanks in advance, j

Answer 1

I still have one machine configured with CS5 and Nucleo Pro, because it offers some functionality that AE->AME workflow does not. 
AME is a great way to background render individual output files, but it lacks the sophistication of the Render Queue when you need to render specifics and multiple files.  I have an ongoing job that requires the weekly generation of around 30 categories of an award show.  Each category (project) requires the output of two video files and two stills from specific parts of the timeline of one comp.  These output parameters, including output formats, locations and in-out points, are stored in the project template's Render Queue.  As far as I'm aware, there's no easy way to move all these parameters to AME easily - a great deal of manual interaction would be required to generate each of the 120 output files from 30 projects each week.  Whereas, using Nucleo I just hit render and keep working.  It's literally a one click workflow.
It's a shame there isn't a "Send After Effects Render Queue to Adobe Madia Encoder" function.  I must lodge a feature request.
Nucleo Pro does a great job of background rendering, and I do miss it's availability in later versions of AE.  There is also a script available over at AE Scripts that background renders.