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`Write-S3Object -BucketName MY_BUCKET_NAME -Key Adobe_AfterEffects_25_1_Windows_installation.zip -File Adobe_AfterEffects_25_1_Windows_installation.zip`.
4. From the AWS EC2 management console, select the instance you used and terminate it.
5. Download the zip file to the `conda_recipes/archive_files` directory in your git clone of the [deadline-cloud-samples](https://github.com/aws-deadline/deadline-cloud-samples) repository for submitting package build jobs, and update the Windows source artifact hash in the aftereffects-25 conda build recipe meta.yaml.


## Plugin Support
To add After Effects plugins support in addition to the base AE conda package, see the following:
- Sample AE plugin recipe using Saber: https://github.com/aws-deadline/deadline-cloud-samples/tree/mainline/conda_recipes/aftereffects-saber
- Sample AE plugin bundle recipe for multiple plugins: https://github.com/aws-deadline/deadline-cloud-samples/tree/mainline/conda_recipes/aftereffects-plugin-bundle
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Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ This package build recipe creates a conda package that bundles together all the
you provide in an input folder. Note that if your plugins require network licenses, you will have to
handle that separately.

### How the Plugin Bundle Works

This recipe takes all the `.aex` plugin files you place in the `archive_files/aftereffects-plugin-bundle/win-64/` directory and packages them into a single conda package. When this package is installed in a conda environment (like on SMF or CMF render nodes), it automatically copies all the `.aex` files into the `%PREFIX%\aftereffects\Plug-ins` directory where After Effects expects to find them.

The workflow is straightforward: you collect your plugin files locally (typically from `C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support Files\Plug-ins`), the conda build process bundles them together, and when installed on render farm nodes alongside the After Effects conda package, all your custom plugins become immediately available without any manual setup on each machine.

To understand how After Effects plugins work in a conda package, see the instructions for plugin
packages in the [After Effects recipe README](../aftereffects-25.1/README.md).

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