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  Import 3d

  Posted by Doug Tepe on February 16, 2008 at 12:33 am

  My co-worker is using 3d Studio Max and I am using AE. What file type should he render out to so that I can Import in to AE.
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  Doug

  Doug Tepe replied 18 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike Park

  February 16, 2008 at 3:21 am

  It really depends on what you are doing with the 3d shot. If you are compositing, you should probably output individual frames and then import them into afx as numbered stills. This will give you the highest quality and most versitile footage in my opinion. I output pngs from max with their alphas and import to afx. Works great for me. You can also output animation files such as avi, movs and mpgs to save space, but will run the risk of getting some artifacting from the compression. If you really want video footage from max, I recommend .mov with the animation codec as an intermediate format.

  Note – this information is based on my experience and from reading other posts

  Cheers
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  Steve Roberts

  February 16, 2008 at 3:33 am

  I prefer sequences too. I render 32-bit TGAs (if the alpha is needed) from Lightwave, or TIFFs from Cinema 4D. Try TGAs.

  To import a numbered sequence into AE, select the first image_000.tga (or whatever), check “TGA sequence” then import. It should be in the Help.
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  Doug Tepe

  February 18, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  Thanks
  I will give it a try,
  hail the cow

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