Installing render-only version -

In the past I was able to install the render-only version (render engine) of AE on several computers with only the 1 license for the full version. Now I am being asked for a license key each time I try to install the render-only version. What am I doing wrong??
Contacting support on the weekends gives you a person who doesn't understand English enough to help. In fact, I was told that I needed to buy more licenses to install the render engine for network rendering.
I contacted the licensing department (during the week) and I was told that I did NOT need a license for the render-only version.
Yet here I am still stuck without the ability to network render with After Effects.

Thanks for that. I have an idea...
How about letting the render engines output only an Adobe formatted file? That way there are no license fee issues?? It could be converted to some other format latter in a "fully licensed" version.
Any Adobe reps reading this?

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Hi there,
I need to install AE CC on 10 blade servers, but there doesn't seem to be a way of doing this withou doing it through the CC app.
There seems to be no sign of AE CC as a standalone app.
And no-one seems to be answering on this forum.
Can I take it then that this isn't possible?
Would it not be possible to create a standalone version of AE which is render only, and doesn't need to be installed via the CC app.
It's the ONLY CC app that works like this...
Would make it a lot easier for render farms and thus serious post work....

OK, I'm going to break this down a bit, because I can't get it to work..
We need some more steps here. This is not as simple as advertised...
Creative Cloud Packager for Creative Cloud Teams and Creative Cloud Enterprise
You do not need to follow the instructions above if you are deploying After Effects CC as part of a multi-seat license, Creative Cloud Teams or Creative Cloud Enterprise. Instead, use the Creative Cloud Packager (CCP) to deploy the software.
Er. So I managed to download and install CCP.
In this case, create the ae_render_only_node.txt file before deployment:
1. Create the ae_render_only_node.txt file as described here, and use CCP to set the destination for this file.
So.... rewind a second.. How do you add this?
The CCP downloads a fresh copy of AE, and makes a CCP installer out of it automatically.
How would one create a package containing the .txt file?
Where is the option to include this file?
There's no option to do this.
2. Deploy After Effects CC using Creative Cloud Packager.
OK. So how do I do that?
From the admin machine or the client machine?
If I copy the package onto the client machine, it needs CCP to install it.... which requires internet access.
Or do I do it from the admin machine... which I can't at the moment, because it's not seeing the client machine on the network....
(I should say at this point that C4d TeamRender is working using the same network, and was super-easy to set up...)
So then I go here....
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/creative-cloud-packager.html
If you are a Creative Cloud for teams customer, download Adobe Creative Cloud Packager from the Team Admin Portal in Adobe Creative Cloud.
OK. That was easy. Got it.
Using Creative Cloud Packager, you create Windows and/or Mac OS packages (MSI or PKG files) and then using any third-party deployment tool that supports the deployment of native installers (for example Microsoft SCCM, Apple ARD, or JAMF Casper Suite) deploy them to client machines.
OK. That's not so easy. Can't I just make something I can copy onto the client machines?
Note:
It is recommended that Creative Cloud Packager should not be installed on a system where one or more Creative Suite products or Creative Cloud Manager products have been installed.
OK. That's not really possible as I don't have a spare machine just to make Adobe packages.
But made something anyway...Made sure I'd quit out of CC....
It's made a folder called RenderNode.
Copied it onto the client machine via my SAN.
Opened it up on the client machine.
There's another folder called 'Build' (looks promising...)
Hey.... there's a file called 'RenderNode' which is what I called the package. And it's a Windows installer..
Double-click..... and.......
'Please wait while Windows configures RenderNode.'
OK..... and waiting......and waiting......and waiting......and waiting......and waiting......and waiting......
Looks like this is going nowhere... Giving up......
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here.
But this is like 10 times more complicated than the previous way of doing things...
Which in itself involves the .txt kludgey thing.
Wouldn't it just be lovely if there was a nice self-contained downloadable render-only app that you could just install?
Surely it wouldn't be that hard?

AFX CS6 Render Only (windows)

I am having trouble in getting the non-royalty bearing mode to work on our farm.
Instructions say
Place a blank file named ae_render_only_node.txt into one of the following locations, depending on the user account type:
Windows locations:
C:\Users\<username>\Documents
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe
However neither of these locations exist. the closest i can find are
C:\Users\<username>\My Documents \Adobe
C:\Users\Public\My Documents
But placing the ae_render_only_node.txt file in these locations, does not work.
How do i get this render only version to work?
~Node spec~
AFX cs6
windows 7
26 GB RAM
12 core proccessor

Hi,
it could be that network is using a roaming profile.
login as local machine administrator (machine_name\administrator) -> ensure the administrator account has a local profile. This can be found control panel -> system -> advanced -> user profile (select the local admin account and make sure the local profile is selected).
double check to make sure the node is running windows 7 is running SP1 (can check computer -> properties)
go to the cmd prompt (windows icon -> in search box -> cmd.exe)
at command prompt
md %Public%\Documents\Adobe
notepad %PUBLIC%\Documents\Adobe\ae_render_only_node.txt -> it will ask if you want to create the file, answer yes, then get save & exit notepad
download/install trial version of After Effects CS6 -> select try it option during install.
after AE CS6 is installed, run bridge & select help -> updates (this will get all the fixes for after effects).
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edited for roaming profile & profile info.

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There is a page here detailing how to put aerender into restricted mode, so that a license key isn't required.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79a3 a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79a2a
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http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2012/04/after-effects-cs6-whats-new-and-changed.html
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MPEG CoDecs are H.264 and all MPEG-2 flavors as well as MP3 audio and that. The other error could merely point to permission issues when in render mode, but naturalyl, if you do this on teh same system, the render only version will stil lread your normal prefs, which could include references to the then invalid output modules...
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