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dana80480687
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June 2, 2017
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Can I use Render Engine on AWS for automated rendering?

  • June 2, 2017
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I want to setup a website where my clients can choose a template, colors, as well as upload their images, and create an order. Then this order will be taken by a script running on another computer (Amazon VM) with After Effects Render Engine installed. This script will run the renderer that will render the ordered template into a video file that will be sent to a client for download.

I want to know if this scenario may violate any of the terms in Adobe license agreement. I have read the license carefully and didn't find any point there that this described scenario will violate, but I want to be sure. To clarify, none of my clients will have access to the AFX render engine. Please advise.

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Correct answer Mylenium

So if instead of Amazon I used my own physical machine in the same scenario there wouldn't be any problem?


So if instead of Amazon I used my own physical machine in the same scenario there wouldn't be any problem?

Correct.

Mylenium

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_Marks
Participant
July 2, 2020

Hello! Any updates on this subject? @ dana80480687 How did you solve it? had a plan B?

    Dave_LaRonde
    Dave_LaRonde
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2017

    Yeah, that may be a cool notion, but it's as illegal as hell.  Time for Plan B.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    June 2, 2017

    I want to know if this scenario may violate any of the terms in Adobe license agreement.

    Sure it does. You are redistributing the software to a third-party service. Aside from a million technical problems, of course.

    Mylenium

    dana80480687
    dana80480687Author
    Participant
    June 2, 2017

    Thank you for your answer. Can you please clarify how it's different from taking client's order and rendering it manually using my own template and then giving the result video to client? Are you saying no one should use AfterFX to make money by doing work for clients?

    And again, I am not redistributing the software. My clients will have no interaction with the software. They will only create an order that I will build and render for them using my own templates and ae licensed to me, as well as some automation tools.

    Mylenium
    MyleniumCorrect answer
    Legend
    June 2, 2017

    So if instead of Amazon I used my own physical machine in the same scenario there wouldn't be any problem?


    So if instead of Amazon I used my own physical machine in the same scenario there wouldn't be any problem?

    Correct.

    Mylenium

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