C4D AND AE

[Carlos Angulo]

I got to install it, but when i try to import a project, nothing happens, no error, nothing, what am I missing?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

First, you need to copy the appropriate AE plugin from your Maxon>Exchange Plugins directory to your AE plugins directory. Then, in Cinema’s render>save settings you need to check the appropriate options (“compositing project file>AE”, and if desired “3d data”). Then click the “save” button, which will prompt you for a location to save the *.aec file.

Open the *.aec file in AE. The plugin will take over and import your footage, multi-pass passes (if specified in Cinema), 3d data (if you applied 3d data tags in Cinema), cameras, lights, etc.

Some tutorials (a bit dated, but you can probably figure them out):
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/thorn/c4dtoae1/index.html
https://www.tvgrafx.com/tutorials.html
https://homepage.mac.com/komaruyama/Tutorials/AE/index.html