• Adobe After Effects

  AE –> C4D? Thoughts? Tips?

  Posted by Ryan Paterson on January 8, 2011 at 5:14 pm

  So I mocked up an animation entirely in After Effects, client approved, great. The thing is, I want to keep my camera moves but incorporate some 3D elements. Does anyone have any thoughts regarding getting camera/solid data INTO C4D from After Effects? I’ve only ever heard of doing it the other way around.

  Is my only option to render it out, put the video on a plane, and match it manually? Any thoughts/tips would be greatly appreciated!

  Ryan Paterson replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Joey Foreman

  January 8, 2011 at 5:35 pm

  You can bring in camera data, lights, multipass texture renders, and z-depth info into AE from C4D, but not 3d meshes.

  Here’s a tutorial

  https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/integrating-c4d-into-ae/

  and another

  https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/10/how-to-export-your-scene-from-cinema-4d-to-after-effects/

  and one more

  https://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/maxon-cinema-4d/how-to-export-3d-camera-data-from-cinema-4d-into-after-effects/

  Hope that helps

  Joey Foreman
  Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
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  Ryan Paterson

  January 8, 2011 at 5:36 pm

  Yes, I am trying to work backwards on this one however- AE Camera -> Cinema
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  Joey Foreman

  January 8, 2011 at 5:49 pm

  Sorry for misreading your question.
  How about this?

  https://www.maxon.net/downloads/updates/plugins.html

  and/or this

  https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=653

  Joey Foreman
  Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
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  Ryan Paterson

  January 8, 2011 at 5:52 pm

  Amazing! I knew there had to be a way. Many thanks!

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