The workflow stops at applying prerender actions using @nexrender/action-image

[drumsta]

Describe the bug
I run CLI using the .bat file:

SET NEXRENDER_ENABLE_AELOG_PROJECT_FOLDER=true

.\nexrender-cli-win64.exe --file "E:\projects\xxx\job.json" --workpath "E:\tmp" --binary "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\aerender.exe" --skip-cleanup --debug

The job.json looks like below:

{
    "template": {
        "src": "file:///E:/Projects/xxx/xxx.aep",
        "composition": "main"
    },
    "assets": [
        {
            "type": "image",
            "layerName": "Custom Image 1",
            "src": "file:///E:/Projects/xxx/xxx.jpg",
            "name": "Custom Image 1.jpg"
        }
    ],
    "actions":{
        "prerender": [
            {
                "module": "@nexrender/action-image",
                "input": "Custom Image 1.jpg",
                "filters": [
                    {
                        "name": "resize",
                        "args": { "width": 1618, "height": 1080 }
                    }
                ],
                "output": "Custom Image 1.jpg"
            }
        ],
        "postrender": [
            {
                "module": "@nexrender/action-copy",
                "input": "result.mp4",
                "output": "E:/Projects/xxx/xxx.mp4"
            }
        ]
    }
}

The output is provided below:

PS E:\nexrender> .\run.bat

E:\nexrender>SET NEXRENDER_ENABLE_AELOG_PROJECT_FOLDER=true

E:\nexrender>.\nexrender-cli-win64.exe --file "E:\projects\xxx\job.json" --workpath "E:\tmp" --binary "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2025\Support Files\aerender.exe" --skip-cleanup --debug
> starting nexrender-cli
checking After Effects command line renderer patch...
command line patch already is in place
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] setting up job...
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] working directory is: E:\tmp\RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] applying predownload actions...
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] downloading assets...
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] > Downloading asset file:///E:/Projects/xxx/xxx.aep...
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] > Downloading asset file:///E:/Projects/xxx/xxx.jpg...
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] applying postdownload actions...
[RkaI23hRQTzeGf_TjJ4R0] applying prerender actions...
PS E:\nexrender>

The workflow stops at applying prerender actions without any error or informational message. I expect image resizing happened.

By inspecting temp folder I can see two files are copied correctly, xxx.aep and xxx.jpg.

If I would remove prerender section, then everything executes fine and the final video file is generated and copied according to the postrender section.

It could be that I use @nexrender/action-image in an incorrect or non-intended way. I just tried my best guess looking at the @nexrender/action-image code.

Information about environment

• Which version of nexrender are you using? - 1.60.9
• What kind of the setup do you have? (server+worker or cli) - Just CLI
• Are you using pre-built binaries or globally installed npm packages? - CLI has been downloaded from Releases section on GitHub
• Which kind (and version) of operating system you are running it in? - Windows 11 Enterprise
• Any additional information that might be helpful

Expected behavior

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