Workflow tips needed for setting up headless script (-noui)

My client is asking for me to create a script that can execute from Photoshop without showing the AE UI at all. For those that have created headless workflows, what tips and tricks can you recommend?
When running a script with noui, how can you tell when it's done, especially if there is a render involved?

hi all,
I actually have similar questions as well. We have a Java process that will kick off AfterEffect thru the command line "afterfx.com -noui -r myscript.jsx" to perform a render job. This method runs perfectly fine when someone actually login on the window's machine and kick off the java process.
However the whole thing runs to a crawl when we started configure the java process to run as a windows service (under the same user that we would use to normally kick off the process interactively thru live login). I can see from the task manager after effect did tries to spawn multiple processes to do the render job that was feed to it thru the myscript.jsx. But those child process would die almost instantly and then AfterEffect process would sit idle for like a minute or two before slowly perform the rendering single threaded.
Anyone here tried and successfully kick off the aftereffect process from a windows' service?
Thanks,
Joseph

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Hi
Could anybody please let me know
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For example i have a seen a similar example as shown ??
I have seen a
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and also please tell me how can the MDB recievies this property data ??
Thanks in advance .

raviprivate wrote:
Could anybody please let me know
*What is the need for setting property data inside the JMSMesage??
For example i have a seen a similar example as shown ??
I have seen a
Message.setStringProperty("Sport","Basketball"); Look at the detail JMS documentation on [Message Properties|http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/jms/Message.html] .
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and also please tell me how can the MDB recievies this property data ?? MDB onMessage method argument is the Message object and if you look at the documentation, Message interface has getter methods to retrieve the properties.

Need help setting up measurementLog scripting

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Advice needed for setting up hard drives.

My new editing machine is pretty well complete. Now it's time for configuring everything, so to bring it's performance up to speed.
Starting with hard drives.
Core Components list-
MB- ASUS P9X79-PRO.
CPU- i7-3930k.
Memory- RipjawsZ 8x8 @1600. 64GB.
GPU- GTX 670 4GB.
C: drive- SSD- intel 520s - 180GB (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit OEM is on this drive).
Plus various 7200rpm disks, and more to be added.
I had someone install most of the components for me, as I'm far too ill to handle the heavy lifting. They did a fairly good job, cept for the hard drive setup. So I need to ask some questions to help me get these drives setup correctly, and running at their full potential.
There's some questions in particular that I must ask first-
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I expected some problem to come as a result.
Here's what it said-
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My question is- Should I take the fact that WEI is now able to run the primary disk test as an indication that it's working fine, and setup correctly ?
I also ran several HD Tune tests for that SSD. It's still a bit slower than I expected.
2/ Raid-0 setup. I take it that plugging 2x 7200rpm disk drives into the Marvell ports would be the parsimonious solution, so my question there is- What is the procedure for setting up a 2x disk Raid-0 on those Marvell ports?
The two disks for RAID-0 I chose are the cheap 'n nasty model from Seagate's 2TB range. I know they're not reliable, which is why I'm not relying on them to store such things as project files, or project media (for things like that I have a Seagate Constellation ES.2 2TB) . This RAID-0 volume's sole purpose is to move along high bit rate Uncompressed Intermediatory video at an acceptable speed.
If the data is lost to disk failure it's not a huge problem. The videos can be rendered again.
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Non-recoverable read errors per bits read:
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N80 - whats needed for setting up wlan

HI,
trying to save wap minutes, what hardware is needed to set up a WLAN in my home ?? to enable me to surf on my phone via wlan??
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26-Nov-2006
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petrib wrote:
If your PC already has WLAN, and your PC also has a fixed/cable connection to the Internet, then it might be possible to make your PC a router (Windows' "Connection Sharing" feature + the WLAN in ad-hoc mode).
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Tips needed for Workflow of PR ???

Hi All,
I am supposed to design a WF for PR object type BUS2105 and this the scenario,
when a requisitioner has issued a purchase requisition < USD 16,000 under some buyer code e.g.,("816"), the system should change this buyer code to transaction buyer code "Q10". and PR's for certain plants in country e.g, austria are exluded.
Right now I am considering WF is triggered on creation/change of PR. and next step will be a condition where all PR < 16.000 are selected to be sent to next step where buyer code is changed to "816" but what step type should I use here?? I am also confused with the tasks I should use to replace the buyer code with "816" and what method of the object type BUS2105 should I use to create this task. and how to exclude PR's from austria.
Any Help is Highly appreciated and Rewarded. Thanks

Hai
Aleem Hajee
I dont know much regarding the functionality of ur scenario but i will try to help u from workflow part.....instead of checking the condition in ur workflow ,u better check it before triggering ur workflow.u can do it in start conditions of start events in basic data..u give a condition something like ' PR < USD 16,000 and country NE australia ' ,to do this u need to have attributes which hold the country and value of PR.so check out if they are available in BUS2105,if not create a subtype and the required attributes .Regarding change of buyer code,i think u can use the method ' change ' of BUS2105.
Thanks & Regards
Jhansikiran

Disk configuration and workflow help needed for lab video workstation

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Setting up a video editing workstation for a research lab that will use Premeire to edit AVCHD Progressive clips (sometimes with 2 streams side-by-side, but usually single-camera) and export them to .mp4 for later viewing by video coders. We won't be using AfterEffects or adding anything to the videos other than some text (titles, maybe sub-titles).
The other purpose of this workstation is to act as a file server and backup system for other machines in the lab. Coders will be viewing the exported videos via other networked machines and working with Microsoft Office files that will be stored on the workstation's other HDDs. I'll have a physical backup drive and cloud backup via CrashPlan.
I've built a machine that is probably overkill, but the client (my wife) wanted it to be "fast," and the purpose of the machine might change in the future:
i7-4770K (overclocked a bit)
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Asus Z87-Pro
GeForce GTX 660
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Following the recommendations for a three-disc configuration I've picked up on these forums, I could set it up like this:
C: (256GB SSD) (OS, programs, pagefile)
D: (1TB HDD) (media, projects)
E: (1TB HDD) (previews, media cache, exports)
F: (4TB HDD) (backups of media, projects, and exports and storage of other research files)*THIS DRIVE WOULD BE SHARED ON THE NETWORK
G: (4TB external HDD) (backup of F & drive that backs up to CrashPlan)
but it seems that would be a waste of the speed of the second 10k velociraptor. If I added another SSD and RAIDed the Velociraptors it would be:
C: (256GB SSD) (OS, programs)
D: (Two 1TB Velociraptors in RAID 0) (media, projects)
E: (256GB SSD) (media cache, pagefile)
but would I then need to add another dedicated HDD for previews and exports, or could I store those on the networked F: from above (which would be previews, exports, backups of media and projects, and storage of other research files) without taking a speed hit?
It seems overkill to have a dedicated drive for exports and previews (let's make that the new F:), then have them copy to the first 4TB drive (now G:), then back that up to the second 4TB drive (now H:), then back that up to CrashPlan. However, people might be accessing that network drive at any time, and I don't want that to slow any part of the video process down.
I appreciate any advice ya'll can give me!

Hi Jim,
Thanks for the encouraging response. I'm leaning toward the non-SSD option at this point.
To make sure I understand, are you suggesting I try using the Velociraptor Raid 0 in the 2 disk configuration suggested by Harm's Guidelines for Disk Usage chart? Like this:
C: (256 GB SSD) (OS, Programs, Pagefile, Media Cache)
D: (1TB x2 in RAID 0) (Media, Projects, Previews, Exports)?
Where I'm still confused there, and in looking at Harm's array suggestions for 5 or more drives, is how performance is affected by having simultaneous read/write operations happening on the same drive, which is what I understood was the reason for spreading out the files on multiple drives. Maybe I don't understand how Premiere's file operations work in practice, or maybe I don't understand RAID 0 well enough.
In the type of editing we'll be doing (minimal) aren't there still times when Premiere will be trying to read and write from the D: drive at the same time, for example during export? Wouldn't the increased speed benefits of RAID 0 for either read or write alone be defeated by asking the array to do both simultaneously?
Maybe the reason the Media Cache is on the SSD in the above configuration is because that is what will be read while writing to something like Exports? But that wouldn't make sense given Harm's chart, which has the Media Cache also located on the array....
Another question is, given that the final home of the exported videos will be on the big internal drive (4TB) anyway, could I set it up like this:
C: (SSD) (OS, Programs, Pagefile, Media Cache)
D: (2TB RAID 0) (Media, Projects, Previews)
E: (network shared 4TB HDD) (Exports + a bunch of other shared non-video files)
so I don't end up having to copy the exported videos over to the 4TB drive? Do you think it would render significantly faster to the RAID than it would to the 7200 rpm 4TB drive? I'd like to cut out the step of copying exported videos from D: to E: all the time if it wasn't necessary.
Thanks again.

Help needed for Time Calc Java Script

Hi,
I am trying to create a timesheet in PDF and have hit a speed bump. Is there anyone there who could provide me with a script that calculated the difference between 2 times? (Field2 time)-(Feild 1 Time) = Duration.I am desperate and have tried everything.
I proccess the payroll for a company and all of the 500 or so timesheets that I received each fortnight are paper copies and I am pulling my hair out. I need to use Adobe forms (We have Adobe Pro 9 and I am using the XML forms, not live cycle) as the serach engine that we use for emails cannot search on excel documents.
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Advice/Tips needed for Interactive PDF

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I know I can create this with bookmarks, but with bookmarks you have a loing list on the left sidebar. The tricky part is I can only show one document and a back to title page link.
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Thanks

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How many windows server 2014 , datacenter needed for setting three pysical servers

I have three new rack server ,each with two processor , each processor has 8 cores.
the question:- how many WinSvrDataCtr 2014R2 needed?

Technically, you would need one DC per dual processor server to run as many VMs on the three hosts as you need.
Depending on your VM workloads, running with Windows Server Standard may be a more economical way to set things up licensing wise. Check the costs for each. You get 2 VMs to install per Standard license purchased per host.
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Philip Elder Microsoft Cluster MVP Blog: http://blog.mpecsinc.ca

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I know that I have to set sth in Plan version and that I have to fill the Activity Type master data in a different way than if I used them without revaluation.
Can you tell me about the settings I should make?
Thanks and regards,
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Hi Karol
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2) You can do manual activity posting but that does solve the purpose.
3) Also u can correct activity hours posted for all orders in the system during month end, this also is a huge activity depending on the number of orders
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5) If u wish to hve prices calcualted by system, then during month end u need to run actual cost splitting and then do actual price calculation
6) Then u need to revaluate all your orders with actual activity prices
Hope the above clarifies - do assign points as a way to say thanks

Is there a need for setting undo_retention=0?

Hi
If i set my undo_retention to a >0 value, oracle will try his best effort to keep the consistent image for as long as my undo retention value. So, i don;t see why is there a need to let oracle manage the retention for me by setting to 0.
Thanks
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Ung

Hi,
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There is a difference in the tuned undo retention value between fixed size undo tablespaces and autoextend enabled tablespaces. From the 10G Release 2 Administrator’s Guide:
If the undo tablespace is
configured with the AUTOEXTEND option, undo retention tuning is slightly different. In
this case, the database tunes the undo retention period to be slightly longer than the
longest-running query on the system at that time.
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database calculates the maximum undo retention period based on database statistics
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percentage for space used, whichever is lower. (The warning alert threshold defaults to
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Workflow advice needed for transferring large VHS Collection w FCPX

I've used FCP 7 for years to upload old vhs tapes, organize them by year (if unlabeled before uploading) -- break into 2 hour segments, output as QT reference movies to iDVD and create DVDs with automatic chapter markers every 10 minutes.
Now I'm using FCPX and I have so many questions. Most of the tapes are 20+ years old but still look pretty decent.
First, when I import (using Canopus ADVC-300) - should I check any of the balance color or analyze and fix audio boxes? I would love to be able to reduce any hisssing sounds -- but how much extra time would this add to the process? Analyzing the audio doesn't seem to take TOO long --- not sure about the color -- but is it worth it?
After each import, the background task shows rendering taking place -- why is this happening?
Can I continue to import more tapes while rendering and at the end of the day let all the rendering happen or would this overwhelm the system
Can I add chapter markers automatically at intervals in FCPX?
Finally...outputting to DVD. I don't believe that exporting a QT reference movie is possible with FCPX. Since I"m talking nearly 200 hours of footage here -- exporting to a self contained QT file to use IDVD doesn't seem to be a good use of disk space. Is there anohter way to use iDVD?
I'm planning to try the very basic "create DVD" options from within FCPX. But would really love to have some nicer DVD menus if iDVD was an option.
If anyone has managed to go through a large VHS transfer process using FCPX - I would love to hear any tips/tricks to speed up and improve my workflow.
Thanks in advance - Jenny

jenlarso wrote:
First, when I import (using Canopus ADVC-300) - should I check any of the balance color or analyze and fix audio boxes? I would love to be able to reduce any hisssing sounds -- but how much extra time would this add to the process? Analyzing the audio doesn't seem to take TOO long --- not sure about the color -- but is it worth it?
Whether it's worth it depends on the content and whether you think the color as shot is accurate. It can always be done after import.
After each import, the background task shows rendering taking place -- why is this happening?
Optimize media may be checked.
Can I continue to import more tapes while rendering and at the end of the day let all the rendering happen or would this overwhelm the system
Probably OK, depending on your system. Try it and see.
Can I add chapter markers automatically at intervals in FCPX?
I don't know of any way other than to move the playhead in 10 minute intervals and mark manually. (Actually, I know how that's done in earlier versions either.)
Finally...outputting to DVD. I don't believe that exporting a QT reference movie is possible with FCPX. Since I"m talking nearly 200 hours of footage here -- exporting to a self contained QT file to use IDVD doesn't seem to be a good use of disk space. Is there anohter way to use iDVD?
You're correct about no reference movies. The recommended workflow is export a master file and bring that into iDVD. When you archive your projects you can always trash unnecessary files and/or archive them on relatively inexpensive USB drives.
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Russ

Instructions needed for setting up Linksys WRE54G (wireless range entender)

Hello all,
I've got an SMC Barricade Wireless Broadband Router (SMC7004AWBR, 802.11b, 11Mbps, WEP 128-bit encryption) with a range that I need to extend.
I've purchased the Linksys WRE54G which is supposedly compatible with any 802.11b or 802.11g wireless device as well as compatible with Macs.
Of course I can't use the "Set up Wizard" provided with the WRE54G since that only works on PCs. However, the WRE54G is supposed to be able to "use the Web-based Utility to configure the Range Expander, then connect the Range Expander to your network. Open the web browser of a networked computer, and enter the Range Expander’s IP address, 192.168.1.240"
I tried this, i.e. typing in 192.168.1.240 into Safari with the following combinations:
my Mac's Airport card "linked" with the WRE54G;
my Mac connected via ether net cable to WRE54G;
my Mac's Airport card connected to the SMC Barricade which was supposedly linked to the WRE54G wirelessly;
my Mac's Airport card connected to the SMC Barricade which was connected t0 the WRE54G via an ether net cable;
my Mac connected to the SMC Barricade with an Ethernet cable which was connected to the WRE54G via an ether net cable;
all of these combinations had no luck (Safari just spun) and I could never load a page to configure the WRE54G.
I've seen that other people in these discussion groups have used the WRE54G with success. Could one of those people please give me some hints or instructions on how to get things working?
Many thanks in advance.
Jim

While I was unable to get my Lynksys WRE54G router to function (I’ll explain why in a minute), I did learn some things that may be of benefit to others trying to get this little beast to work.
Most importantly, your base station (whatever the brand) must have “Wireless Distribution System” or “WDS” capabilities, and that functionality must be turned “on” before attempting to auto synch the WRE54G. For Macintosh, there will be a tab on the AirPort Admin Utility (after launching the application, click on your base station, then click “Configure”).
Surprisingly, it appears that many base stations do not have WDS capabilities. AirPort “Graphite” and “Snow” do not; AirPort Extreme and Express do. (Of course, my AirPort is a Graphite, so I was SOL).
However, this experience did point something out to me: Mac people (like me for 21 years now) are used to simply plugging something in and having it work. We don’t understand what’s “behind the curtain” and, when we have to work with that “stuff”, at least I get lost very, very quickly.
A couple of years ago I spent many frustrating hours getting a Lynksys access point to work with an early iMac (it would not accept an AirPort card and thus I had no other choice for wireless networking). Now the WRE54G. I am done with non-Apple gear like this -- it’s just not worth the frustration to save a few dollars.
TiBook 1ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) proud Mac user for 21 years
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Tips needed for multiple iPods and users with one PC...

We are a family of four, with four iPods and one PC. We have two (Windows) user accounts set up. My husband and son share one, and my daughter and I use the other. My husband's and son's music does not show up in my user library and visa-versa. There are some songs that my husband has purchased that I would like on my iPod, but there are songs that my daughter has that I DON'T want on my iPod. Is there a way to set up 4 separate librarys that can choose to share (or not share) songs?
Windows XP

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a) Sharing a single iTunes library and or user account or
b) Creating multiple user accounts.
Note: When you are sharing an iTunes library, you don't have to set each iPod to update in the same manner, you can mix and match from the options below as each iPod has it's own update settings
Sharing a Library and/or User Account
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Choosing the update option "Sync Music - Selected playlists" allows you to create a playlist specifically for the iPod and drag the tracks you want into it. If you tire of the list and want to change it, you just add or remove the songs you don't want. The ones you take out out remain in the library to be used some other time if you choose. You can read more about playlists at these links:
iTunes: Creating playlists of your favorite songs
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Or you can choose to update any or all of the iPods manually and just drag whatever content you want to them: Managing content manually on iPod
Loading the iPod shuffle differs slightly but it can still be used with the others, for details have a look at this page:
Loading songs onto iPod shuffle - Windows
It's also possible to have multiple libraries in a single account. To create or access a second (or more) library, hold down the Option key (or Shift key in Windows) when launching iTunes 7. In the resulting dialogue you will get the option to create a new library or navigate to the other Library.
Note: You can only have one Library open at a time and iTunes will default to the last library opened if you don't use the keyboard command to choose one. This can prove tricky when using multiple iPods, if you don't use the keyboard command you can risk syncing to the wrong library:
Using multiple iTunes libraries -Windows
Separate User Accounts
Another option (which you've already tried) is to create a separate User account for each person on your PC or Mac. Different accounts by definition would give you completely separate libraries. Each account has it's own iTunes folder, Library and iTunes Music folder and you load it with CDs etc just as you did with your original one. The iPod can be set to update however the owner chooses, sync all, manual or sync specific playlists

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