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April 5, 2017
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After Effects render-engine CC2017 license issue

  • April 5, 2017
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Hi there,

I am trying to setup our render-farm for AFX rendering and am encountering some issues. Problem is that the ae-render engine can't be started without license. Everything I find online implies that the render engine can be run without license. Did anything of that change on a recent update? And if not what's the proper way to setup a render node/slave?

I logged in with an Adobe-ID to install After Effects, started the main software as well as the render engine once (and closed it afterwards) and then unsigned the Adobe-ID. Are any further steps required?

Regards,
Julian

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    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    Tim KurkoskiCorrect answer
    Adobe Employee
    April 5, 2017

    These links have the information you need:

    Automated rendering and network rendering in After Effects

    installing After Effects CC render engines with Adobe Creative Cloud | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

    Unicycle Rob
    Unicycle Rob
    Known Participant
    May 4, 2017

    I've read some of this already and watched a few youtube videos explaining how to set it up.

    I have not yet gotten it to work for me. I noticed while AE Render Engine is running the "Watch Folder", it scans the watch folder and I see it listing out the collected files and then starts scanning again instead of rendering?! Why is this happening?

    I've also added the blank txt file that the Adobe article suggests, and double checked to see if there wasn't two extensions at the end as I turned hide extensions off.

    Please Help! Thanks!

    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    Tim Kurkoski
    Adobe Employee
    May 4, 2017

    When you collected your After Effects project, did you turn on the Enable Watch Folder Render checkbox in the Collect Files dialog? That's what I usually forget to do.

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