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After Effects or Premiere markers into Cinema 4D
OK, this is more of a ‘how I solved this’ than a question.
I’m working on an animation that requires me to hit certain beats in music.
Trying to create markers in Cinema 4D for this is painful.My solution is not automatic, but is a LOT easier than working in Cinema.
I created a comp in After Effects (you could do the same thing in Premiere or any other video editor), then create a solid that is one frame long and something other than black, I used white.
Then, I dropped my music into my comp and opened the waveform.
Next, I placed the 1-frame solids everywhere I wanted a ‘marker’ in Cinema 4D.
After I was done with all my ‘markers’ I exported a a video file.In Cinema 4D, I created a background object, added a material to it and used the video clip as a texture.
I made sure my C4D project was the same timecode as my AE project.
Then, I went into the Animation (dope sheet) section of C4D and created a shortcut key to add a marker.
Now all I had to do was press the G key to move one frame forward, and every where I saw a ‘flash’ I added a marker with the shortcut key.Not the most elegant solution, but for me, it was much easier than trying to work with audio in C4D.
You could probably do this a LOT faster in Premiere Pro with copy/paste and being able to quickly navigate to fine the hits in the music.
Hopefully this will help someone.
Jim
Reel Inspirations – http://www.reelinspirations.com
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Thank you for this! C4D really needs a more elegant solution for markers.
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