> am afraid of trying lest Adobe think I'm attempting to circumvent licensing
Have no fear. Just do it. There's no risk to trying to install software on as many machines as you like. Even in the cases in which you only have a license to use our software on two machines, the worst thing that happens is that you are told to deactivate on one computer before activating on another.
See these posts:
installing After Effects CC render engines with Adobe Creative Cloud
codecs and the render engine in After Effects CS6 and After Effects CC