Exporting depth from C4D 9.6 to AAE7?

[Mylenium]

Make sure you enable the front and back blur on the depth tab of the camera. Works without problems here. For ultimate control about your Z-buffer, you may want to consider this plugin:

https://blackstar-solutions.de/en_c4dendofin.php

Mylenium

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[Pixelkarma]

Thanks, but that has nothing to do with my question. I would like to know how to export depthinfo from c4d and how to make it work with the 3D Chanel > Depth of Field filter.

[Mylenium]

[Pixelkarma] “I would like to know how to export depthinfo from c4d and how to make it work with the 3D Chanel > Depth of Field filter.”

Umm, you enable the camera depth parameter just as I said, find suitable ranges, choose RPF as image format and off you go (Z-depth is a default channel, so you don’t even need to activate it explicitly). Not much to it, really. In AE you only need to play with the parameters of the Depth of Field effect once you have applied it. Just make sure it’s the first effect on the layer.

Mylenium

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[Lennart Wåhlin]

As Mylenium sais RPF/RLA would be the best choice since you get the z-buffer within the file. I -think- you would only have to engage the backblur range on the Camera (I haven’t double checked that). You don’t have to set any Depth in render settings for this. What to think of when using RLA/RPF thou is that it doesn’t work using NET rendering. The internal .b3d format cannot carry the z-buffer over NET. I have asked Maxon and it is technically allmost impossible I’m afraid.
Another way is simply to multipass render and have the DepthChannel activated in PostEffects.

Cheers
Lennart