Do I need a license of After Effects for every render machine

No. As of 2020, Adobe’s licensing allows you to have unlimited render machines as Render-Only nodes. This means you can use After Effects to render without being signed into Adobe Creative Cloud. You only need to log into Adobe Creative Cloud to...

Does the Mac version work with Apple Silicon (M1)?

Yes! Render Boss works well with Apple Silicon. Currently it uses the Rosetta 2 emulation layer, and while we do have plans to make a native version, Render Boss does not use significant resources by itself, so the performance gains (if any) would be minimal....

Setting up Remote Renders

Video This video explains a lot of the concepts and instructions from this article: Introduction: The ability to spread renders among multiple machines is a really powerful way to speed up renders and/or to allow artists to keep working without having to stop for...

Sending Renders to Adobe Media Encoder

You can send your final renders to Adobe Media Encoder, which is useful if you need an output in any of the formats supported by it, but not supported by After Effects. To do this, choose any of the ‘Media Encoder’ options in the ‘Final Video...