From: Victor DiMichina <victor@(email surpressed)> Subject: aerender with CS6 - serializing software Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:44:06 -0400 |
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From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: Re: aerender with CS6 - serializing software Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:07:01 -0400 |
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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 -- Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed) Seriss Corporation Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/ Tel: (Tel# suppressed)ext.23 Fax: (Tel# suppressed) Cel: (Tel# suppressed) |