Render Notification from thecurrentcut.com
This is one of the coolest little apps I’ve seen in awhile. Simply start your render in Final Cut Pro, Color, Avid, or Compressor; open the app and get an email when your render’s done!
The coolest aspect of this app is the ability to send text messages via email, which I think is way more convenient than an email. Especially if you’re using the rendering time to do things away from the computer. BTW, if you have your smartphone set to notify you EVERY time you get an email, you really need to turn that off. I guarantee you that no successful CEO uses that feature and neither should you. Anyway, when you open the app, it lists the email addresses for all the major US cell phone providers. For example, sending a text to an AT&T customer via email is cellnumber@txt.att.net
One downfall is that you have to set up email on your editing computer for this to work. Most edit stations are company computers and not your personal property, so the Mail app isn’t usually set up. A simple work around is to create a Gmail account (or an email address at your company) specifically for this use. Such as rendersdone@yourcompany.com or yourcompanyrender@gmail.com. Then set up that account on Mail on all the edit systems in your office.
Enjoy your new found freedom!
Thx for the kind words about the render app 🙂
When the dialog comes up that says “Do you want to send email with Mail.app?” try choosing “No”. The app will send the email through the shell (using sendmail). For some home users, the email would not be sent because some ISPs block the ability to run “email servers” at home. I can’t imagine why 😉 Try it out, YMMV.
It’s not the cleanest implementation. I’ll improve it for the 2.0 version.
Hey Josh, great app. Editors have been asking me for something like this for years, but I’m not a programmer.
I tried sending email by selecting “No” twice, but the email never went though. My office uses a cable ISP, so I think it’s blocking it (I know they do that). So I tried the set up I explained and it worked great. All of my clients except one use consumer-grade internet, so I figure this will happen a lot.
Any thoughts on adding After Effects to the list?
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Just found this link and am curious if the app has been added for After Effects yet or if there is any plan to do so. It would certainly be useful. Don’t really use FCP anymore and Premiere’s rendering and playback is so improved, for most of our work, render times are negligible. It would be a great app for After Effects and Media Encoder though…