Cinema 4D viewports through blackmagic card?

[Adamt]

[ademafiles] “I know that I’m able to use extended desktop and literally drag the app window to that, but I’m wondering if there is a similar output previewing like After Effects and Final Cut Pro.”
No can do AFAIK.

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

That would be a fantastic feature. And particulary in Macintosh computers would require almost no coding at all, since video out is a standard feature provided by Quicktime to any application.
However, given how long it takes to render a 3D frame, in a couple of seconds you could drag that exported frame to Photoshop and send it to your video monitor (Decklink cards come with a free Photoshop Export plug-in).

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo@adolforozenfeld.com

[Adamt]

Yeah, I think that’s why they don’t bother, because you’ll rarely if ever have realtime playback out of a 3D renderer. I imagine we’ll see that change as realtime OpenGL/d3d performance comes along.

[Alan Demafiles]

I was envisioning more wireframe, low rez texturing etc to preview to clients as they supervise a session with framing, pacing, composition of 3D elements.

I suprised this isn’t a more requested feature. Client driven sessions gave rise to tools like external previewing for editing and motion graphics. In my world, I use 3D for broadcast design and any tool that can speed up this process of the workflow would be an invaluable asset. Besides, I want them to look at my 3D work from anywhere other than over my shoulder!

[Noah Kadner]

I’d suggest a dual head graphics card with a second cinema display for your client that mirrors your desktop. That way they can see exactly what your doing without being over your shoulder.

Noah

[Chris Smith]

I think Noah has the right approach. It’s like the way the *inferno works. The client doesn’t just see the rendered output. They watch the operator’s screen the whole time.

As a side note. If you are doing 3D for Broadcast, I personally always put my render output window in the Decklink mirrored desktop area. So any time I hit Preview frame I’m looking at it through a broadcast monitor. After spending hours once setting colors and lights in a project looking at my computer monitor, I dropped it in AE and needed so much levels correction, I realized it was better to set everything right for broadcast in the first place in C4D.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com