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JULY 30, 2002 How To Set Up an After Effects Render Farm
Adjust your settings as in the picture below, with the "Enable Watch Folder" and "Change Render output to" options checked specify the maximum number of machines you want to have working on this project, and then click "Collect." 
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Another dialog will appear asking you to locate the folder where you wat the files collected. Choose the Watch Folder you created earlier, and click "Save."
After Effects will now collect all of your project files and move them into the Watch Folder. It will also generate the all-important files needed for the other Render Engines on the network to be able to work together on this project. Once you've done this, go to each of the machines on your network, launch the After Effects Render Engine, and select File > Watch Folder. In the dialog that appears, choose the Watch Folder that you have already created. Repeat this on all of your machines, including your primary machine, if you want it to be included in the network render process. As mentioned above, you can also free up your main application by running the Render Engine on your primary system in addition to the main application--in other words, you can run After Effects 5.5 and the After Effects 5.5 Render Engine on the same machine at the same time. Once you've chosen the Watch Folder in each Render Engine, including your main system--whether you do it from the main application or the Render Engine version--they will start chugging out frames to your specified Output Folder, which will be located in your Project Folder inside the Watch Folder. Subsequent uses of the Render Engine Of course, it would be a pain to have to go to each machine and select a Watch Folder every single time you wanted to perform a network render. Fortunately, this is a one-time process. After you select the Watch Folder manually the first time, you can just leave those machines running, and they'll automatically start rendering anytime you collect files into the Watch Folder in the future. So, essentially, after the first render, you can stuff your networked computers into a closet and forget about them (which is a particular benefit if you're using Windows PCs in your render farm). So, for all subsequent renders, you need only add the comp to the Render Queue and use the Collect Files function (as described above) on your primary system. Everything else is automatic. Your Render Engine clients automatically return to "Search" mode when they've completed all of the available renders. 
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