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

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Seems Like you have a solution for something I posted a few mins back as Ask HN: 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.

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.

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?

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.

If you can use Nuke you can make a composit script that can take command line arguments, which makes it very easy to automate.

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/.

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?

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

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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 :)

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