And just so everyone knows, this is one question I can't really answer
because I don't know how AE licenses there stuff. I'm on some kind
of developer program with them, so I'm licensed in a different way
from regular customers.
But I thought I'd add my "two cents":
Best thing to do is ask the folks at Adobe if there's any doubt;
tell them you have workstations and a farm, and only need to use the GUI
on workstations; the farm would only ever be running the 'aerender' command.
They should be able to help you so that you only purchase the licenses you need.
I'd back that up with some actual empirical testing to verify you don't
need the licenses for the kind of rendering you're doing.
In my case I do the full installs on all machines, just so I can be sure
'everything is there' so I can pull up the GUI if needed to test on a single
farm machine that might be acting weird.
My philosophy with installing all 3rd party software is to install 'everything'
because disk space is cheap, and it's better to have all machines have the
same config, then to have seperate installs for the farm and workstations,
to avoid problems later that might only show up because of a 'render only' install.
Regarding the licenses, I imagine both the full installs and render only installs
consume licenses similarly; if you do a render only operation on a machine
with a full install, I would assume it wouldn't use up a GUI license.
Stefan Andersson wrote:
yeah you don't need a license for each AE render. I wagualy remember
that you can chose "render only" or something when you install it.
Either way it's perfectly legal to install it even if you have only
one license and then use the AErender.exe to render with (which Rush
points too).
Just remember that certain plugins (the ones that doesn't come with
AE) might require a separete render license. RE:Vision for instance
has one license for the user and another that is required for
AErender.
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