From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: aerender with CS6 - serializing software
   Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:07:01 -0400
Msg# 2249
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Much thanks for the tip, Victor..!

On 6/27/12 8:44 PM, Victor DiMichina wrote:
> Here's a tip for anyone deploying an After Effects CS6 farm.    With the new volume licensing,  you are required to serialize each machine.   This applies to volume licenses as well.     It's a pain for image deployment,  but manageable.      I just deployed the image,  then  serialized the machines that will have aritsts,  while the render farm remained unserialized and used aerender render engine only.
> 
> Trouble is  machines began failing,  with no output.    It turns out that aerender--despite being a free renderer--requires a serialized machine.      Pretty annoying,  and not feasible for a render farm.    The workaround is this:
> 
> Install After Effects on the render-only machine. Place a blank file named *ae_render_only_node.txt* into one of the following locations, depending on the user account type:
> 
>   * Mac locations:
>       o /Users/<username>/Documents/
>       o /Users/Shared/Adobe/
>       o *
>         *
>   * Windows locations:
>       o C:\Users\<username>\Documents
>       o C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe
> 
> Best,
> 
> Victor DiMichina


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