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Cinema creates .c4d instead of .png when rendering
Hi 🙂
After years of reading, I registered today and here is my first problem. I have used the search feature on this site as well as on Google prior to posting.When rendering a image sequence with the settings set to 16bit PNG, Cinema 4D r12 writes c4d files to my hard drive instead of the requested Portable Network Graphics. I can select the files and save them as a PNG through the Picture viewer but this is extremely cumbersome because I have a vast multi pass setup with manny channels.
Regards,
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Hi Wilfried. Are you using the Vray bridge by any chance? I’ve found that Vray can’t/won’t save a .png sequence. It doesn’t save anything at all though – not .c4d – not anything. If I go and change my output to tiff sequence instead of .png it works fine.
Even if you’re not running Vray – try tiff and see how that goes. You never know.
Kind regards
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Nope, we’re using Cinemas built in advanced render…
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I just found out that th c4d files, that have no extensions can be simply given the png extension through Automator and are fullyfunctional PNG files.
Thanks for your post Alan. -
You’re welcome Wilfried. Nice to see you got it sorted out in the end 🙂
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It was just a workaround though (using Apple Automator to rename everything) so I would still like to learn the real deal.
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it sounds like they were always png files. When you double clicked them they opened in C4D’s picture viewer, yes? That just means they are associated with C4D but if you right-clicked on them you would be able to choose a different program to open them using the Open With… choice.
If you Option-Right Click that becomes Always Open With… and will change the file association of that file to always open in some program (of your choice).
If you select a number of files and do a Command-Option-i an Info dialog will open which will allow you to set the program those files are associated with.Where are the files going to be processed? Are you taking them to AE? PS? FCP? They can probably be opened directly there without having to rename at all.
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The problem is we’re using a ACP Compositing Project file from Cinema for Comping in AE and when we use this file it complaints: “AE can’t read this file format”. So we have to use the workaround to batch rename thousands of multipass frames with Automator to turn them into “real” pngs. The weird thing is that Cinema sometimes does create real PNGs with the same settings.
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does it make a difference to have a .png extention on the initial name in the Render Settings/Save dialog?
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I didn’t try this out actually. It is set to “Name0000” but above it is set to PNG.
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