From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [SYSADMIN/AFTERFX] AE license errors on OSX can end up in system.log
   Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:11:44 -0400

	Guess I never noticed this, but it seems when After Effects (CS5.5)
	on OSX encounters a license problem, aerender will just show
	a few PROGRESS lines, then exits with 0, eg:

aerender version 10.5.1x2
PROGRESS: Launching After Effects...
PROGRESS: ...After Effects successfully launched

	No message at all about licenses to stdout or err.
	However, aerender /does/ throw a license error to /var/log/system.log, eg:

Aug 20 00:00:00 render1 [0x0-0xdd8dd8].com.adobe.aerendercore[1234]: After Effects error: Unable to obtain a license. Please run the full application to correct the problem or get a more detailed message.

	I guess that's a useful AE debugging tip; if AE seems to just exit
	without an error before even loading the scene file, do a tail
	of the system.log on that machine to see if there's any errors
	about aerender.. it may give a clue as to what the problem is.

	Someone report a bug to Adobe that aerender should at least
	also throw the license errors to stdout/err, and exit with a 1. :/