Thanks to Brian Krusic for this info on AE render only rendering:
I haven't tried this myself, but FYI:
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/06/codecs-and-the-render-engine-in-after-effects-cs6.html
The gist of it being creating a file called "ae_render_only_node.txt"
in /Users/Shared/Adobe/ to enable "non-royalty-bearing" render only mode,
so if you're not using codecs that involve royalties, you can use this mode:
"After Effects CS6 and After Effects CC include a significant change
from After Effects CS5.5 regarding the ability to use network rendering
without activation of render-only instances of the application, known as
render engines.
"After Effects CS5.5 had to be activated (serial number entered) on
render-only machines due to licensing restrictions for certain codecs.
See this post by After Effects product manager Steve Forde [links below]
for more background about this."
The link on that page is stale, due to the regular growth of Steve's blog,
but these are I think the articles the above meant to point to:
Oct 12, 2011 -- Render Engines and Joy of legal obligations [part 1 of 2]
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/10/render-engines-and-joy-of-legal-obligations.html
Dec 07, 2011 -- Render Engines and the Joy of LEGAL obligations [Part 2 of 2]
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/12/render-engines-and-the-joy-of-legal-obligations-part-2.html
Also:
"Jul 09, 2013 -- Installing After Effects CC render engines with Adobe Creative Cloud"
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/07/installing-after-effects-cc-render-engines-with-adobe-creative-cloud.html
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