Actually, you can render and export out of Cinema 4D Lite; but only to very limited files. Useful for review, et cetera, but not for sending off to another application.
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To clarify, AE itself is not rendering the C4D files; the CINEWARE plug-in is, using Maxon's rendering engine - not AE's.
C4D Lite does not have a Render function - it's done by CINEWARE inside the AE shell - but you can change your render settings in C4D Lite just as you did in a normal copy of C4D. Indeed, I demonstrated that in one of the movies I embedded in my PVC posts.