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• Announcements

  Change logs of Dataclay software releases, known issues, and promotions

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  The Dataclay team has released Templater 3.2, which implements some exciting new error-reporting options and bug fixes. Thank you for being so patient. Enjoy!

  WHAT’S NEW IN 3.2

  NEW FEATURE — Per-job Logging
  It’s now easier than ever to identify when errors occur during Templater’s operation and what specifically causes those errors: In Templater’s connected data source, Bot will label individual rows / jobs with an error when an output issue occurs. Any issue locating or importing media assets causes Templater to assign an error value to the render-status property. For each processed row / job, Templater logs details about missing or corrupt media references and their corresponding composition layers to the templater.err file. Errors and info emitted by After Effects, regardless of severity level, to the templater.err file. Detailed logs are attached to each processed job in QUE for enhanced observability and transparency.
    BUG FIXES When using the command line interface to render QUE jobs, Templater would only process the initial page of returned results when using the job_filter.additional_pages property. Templater now processes all pages in a returned query from QUE when using the CLI. Fixed failed installation error on macOS Ventura systems. Fixed QUE satellite registration on Windows installations with a non-English default language.
• Data Sources

  Questions, answers, and discussions about data sources compatible with Templater.

  Google Sheets

  Local JSON

  Remote URL Feeds

  Tabbed Separated Values
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  @veteos Glad to hear that’s resolved, and that it was an easy fix!

• Dataclay QUE

  Topics related to Dataclay QUE, the optimal datastore with an API for Templater

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  Yeah, got it to work, had to select one of the jobs first, and then all columns showed :) This is great, I’m really starting to love QUE as much as I do Templater :-)

• Templates

  Questions, answers, and discussions about preparing After Effects projects for processing by Templater.

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  @citizensam

  I’m unsure if I understand what we’re looking to accomplish here. I can say that Templater doesn’t support XML data files by default, but it does have support for PNG sequences.

  Can we get a few more details on how this project is set up? What is meant when you say that each XML is a different PNG sequence? The more detail we can get on what you’re attempting to accomplish, the better we’ll be able to formulate a suggestion.

  Let us know what you can and we’ll see where we need to go from there.

  Thanks,

  Jeff

• Batch Output

  Questions, answers, and discussions about batch rendering and replicating re-versioned After Effects compositions.

  Rendering Dynamic Comps

  Replicating Dynamic Comps
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  @citizensam

  Absolutely! New settings can be added to the “Render Settings” or “Output Module” through the existing After Effects tools located under the Edit>Templates menu. Once the new options are added, they should show up in the Templater panel once the “Load Settings & Module Templates” button is pressed.

  As a quick side note, it might also be useful to use the module and render-settings reserved columns to set the output settings using information from the Data Source the project is using. As long as the data in these two columns match up with valid options in the “Render Settings” and “Output Module” options in AE, Templater should use them when each row is processed. This can be useful if we need to switch between different output modules on the fly.

  Hopefully, that helps, but if you run into any issues, please feel free to get in touch, and we’ll do whatever we can to help out.

  Thanks,

  Jeff

• Templater Event Scripts

  Questions, answers, and discussions about Templater's automation extensibility and integration.

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  @viriato

  Hmmm. That’s quite odd. One thing to check would be to see what the value of post_cmd_output_async is in the templater-options.json file. That key should be set to false to enable synchronous execution, which should keep the post_cmd_job action from setting the render-status to done until the script is completed.

  If that doesn’t make any difference, we might need to get some additional information on what actions the script is performing. If that ends up being the case and you’d like to provide that information in a less public setting, please feel free to email our support channel directly at support@dataclay.com

  Thanks!

• Templater Case Studies

  Examples of Templater used by creative studios, broadcast, and application developers.

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  David Graff, John Wirtz, and Brian Kaiser founded Hudl in 2006 with the goal of capturing and adding value to every moment in athletics. Using their computer science backgrounds, the University of Nebraska sports fanatics built a platform that would enable coaches and players to review, annotate, and share game video across multiple platforms and devices. Their hard work paid off.

  With 130,000 sports outfits subscribing to their software worldwide—including NFL, NHL, and NBA teams, and an exponentially growing number of high school teams signing up every season—Hudl recently secured $72.5 million in a single Stage B funding round for a total valuation of $250 million. They expect this fall to be their busiest ever with 30,000 varsity high school football teams subscribing at a minimum of $800 per year for their cheapest package!

  Several times a year, Hudl holds a company-wide event called Skunkworks, modeled after the fabled Lockheed Martin creative think-tank that produced some of the company’s most innovative solutions. One of their teams wanted to address the “cookie-cutter” sameness of the popular highlights feature favored by athletes and recruiters. Developers Casey Batemen, Joel Hensley, and Kelly Herrington discovered Templater Bot, and found the best turnkey solution for making their highlight reels standout.

  Hudl successfully integrated Templater Bot into its robust video automation platform, and will soon roll out the Video Goodness product feature — enabling every team or athlete to have their own customized ESPN-quality highlight reel created in just a few minutes. The feature is eagerly awaited, and should make a huge splash when it goes live just in time for football season.

  Templater Bot’s coding-friendly API and ability to turn huge amounts of data into highly customized and individualized bulk renders allowed Hudl developers to clear some of their most challenging implementation and logistical hurdles.

  We are blown away by Hudl’s ingenious use of Templater in their pipeline and wish them continued success! We look forward to partnering on more solutions in the future.

• Templater Bot Deployment

  Questions, answers, and discussions about deploying Templater Bot onto servers

  Environments

  Pulling Data

  Pushing Data

  API Development
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  @jeff Hey Jeff, thanks for getting back.

  Arie has already upvoted my Adobe Forum Post so i figured you were taking a look at things.
  We are rebooting our machines every night because we have experienced issues with AE instances that ran for a long time.

  I think the crashes are cause by either the tasked reboot force quitting AE or by the fact that we have three instances of Templater Bot running the same project at once and the way that AE checks for chashes is some kind of quit statement in the projectfile itself.

  Because once one project is opened, we get the Crash Options dialogue on instance 2 and 3 (run with the -m parameter).

  Instance 2 and 3 generate on demand previews that are shown to the creators in our frontend. We are running two instances to speed up the polling of our json data (still limited to 0.2 min) to have a result asap.

  I guess the issue is with having the same project open multiple times.

  I could fork a “preview project” but i really dont want to do that everytime there are updates to the template.

  I just want adobe to not fk with my day :(

  At the moment i’m thinking of going back to 23.1 or 23.0 and just disabling updates.

• General

  General topics related to Dataclay products

  License Management
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  Thank you. Where can I find the templater preferences?

  Found it, thanks!