Render After Effects sketches

Rakefile

AFTER_EFFECTS_EXPORT_DIRECTORY = "film/after_effects"

rule ".mov" => proc {|task_name|
  task_name.sub(/\.mov/,
                '.aep').sub(AFTER_EFFECTS_EXPORT_DIRECTORY,
                            'artwork/after_effects') } do |t|
  if !t.name.match("Adobe After Effects Auto-Save")
    puts "Rendering #{t.source} to #{t.name}"
    output_template = "Animation"
    if (t.source =~ /-t-/)
      output_template = "Lossless with Alpha (Straight)"
    end
    mkdir_p File.dirname(File.expand_path(t.name))
    if File.exist?(File.expand_path(t.name))
      rm File.expand_path(t.name)
    end
    command = ["'/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5/aerender'",
               # "-reuse", # Launch one instance of AE, or use existing. Faster.
               %(-project "#{File.expand_path(t.source)}"),
               %(-comp "Comp 1"),
               %(-RStemplate "Best Settings - Full Comp"), # Render template
               %(-OMtemplate "#{output_template}"), # Output template
               "-mp", # Use multicore
               "-v ERRORS",
               "-close DO_NOT_SAVE_CHANGES",
               "-sound ON",
               %(-output "#{File.expand_path(t.name)}")]
    system(command.join(' '))
    rm_rf t.source + " Logs"
  end
end

rule ".mov" => proc {|task_name|
  task_name.sub(/\.mov/,
                '.aep').sub(AFTER_EFFECTS_EXPORT_DIRECTORY,
                            'artwork-ii/after_effects') } do |t|
  if !t.name.match("Adobe After Effects Auto-Save")
    puts "Rendering #{t.source} to #{t.name}"
    output_template = "Lossless"
    if (t.source =~ /-t-/)
      output_template = "Lossless with Alpha (Straight)"
    end
    mkdir_p File.dirname(File.expand_path(t.name))
    command = ["'/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/aerender'",
               "-reuse", # Launch one instance of AE, or use existing. Faster.
               %(-project "#{File.expand_path(t.source)}"),
               %(-comp "Comp 1"),
               %(-RStemplate "Best Settings"), # Render template
               %(-OMtemplate "#{output_template}"), # Output template
               "-mp", # Use multicore
               "-v ERRORS",
               "-close DO_NOT_SAVE_CHANGES",
               "-sound ON",
               %(-output "#{File.expand_path(t.name)}")]
    system(command.join(' '))
    rm_rf t.source + " Logs"
  end
end

task :create_output_directory do
  mkdir_p AFTER_EFFECTS_EXPORT_DIRECTORY
end

MOV_FILES = Dir['artwork/after_effects/**/[0-9]*.aep'].map {|t| t.sub(/artwork\/after_effects/, AFTER_EFFECTS_EXPORT_DIRECTORY).sub(/\.aep/, '.mov')}

desc "Render After Effects files"
task :render => [:create_output_directory, MOV_FILES].flatten

task :default => :render