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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