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Help Using Help Writing Scripts Back 12 Usage The command-line application aerender renders After Effects compositions. The render may be performed either by an already running instance of After Effects or by a newly invoked instance. By default, aerender will invoke a new instance of After Effects, even if one is already running. To change this, see the "-reuse" flag in the following "Arguments" below. Arguments From the command line aerender takes a series of optional arguments that are added following the executable command (i.e. aerender.exe). Some are single flags, like "-reuse". Some come in flag-argument pairs, like "project project_path". And one comes in a triplet, -mem_usage image_cache_percent max_mem_percent. With 0 arguments, or with any argument equaling "-help", aerender prints a usage message with the information contained in this section. Argument -help -reuse -project project_path -comp comp_name Usage print usage message Use this flag if you want to try and reuse an already running instance of After Effects to perform the render. By default, aerender launches a new instance of After Effects, even if one is already running. But, if After Effects is already running, and the -reuse flag is provided, aerender asks the already running instance of After Effects to perform the render. Whenever aerender launches a new instance of After Effects, it tells After Effects to quit when rendering is completed; otherwise, it doesn't quit After Effects. Also, the preferences are written to file upon quitting when the -reuse flag is specified; otherwise it isn't written. where project_path is a file path or URI specifying a project file to open. If none is provided, aerender will work with the currently open project. If no project is open and no project is provided, an error will result. where comp_name specifies a comp to be rendered. If the comp is in the render queue already, and in a queueable state, then (only) the first queueable instance of that comp on the renderqueue is rendered. If the comp is in the project but not in the render queue, then it is added to the render queue and rendered. If no -comp argument is provided, aerender renders the entire render queue as is. In this case (no -comp), the only other arguments used are -project, -log , -v, -mem_usage, and -close; the -RStemplate, -OMtemplate, -output, -s, -e, and arguments are ignored. Using Help Back 12