Render Adobe After Effects projects on Deadline Cloud

The afterfx_render_one_task job bundle uses aerender to render an After Effects frame range as a single task. The entire workload runs on one worker as one command. The bundle accepts the following job parameters:

This bundle expects an input directory that contains all file references required to render. Place the project file inside the input directory to preserve relative paths.

To run this bundle, you need After Effects installed on Windows worker hosts. You can use the After Effects host configuration script in the samples repository to install After Effects with Red Giant plugins on a Windows service-managed fleet. The aftereffects-25.1 conda recipe builds an After Effects conda package as an alternative.