[Blair Harrower]

Jim,

Huge thank you for your help with this. That worked a treat! Thanks again for your patience. Much appreciated!

B.

[Blair Harrower]

Great! Yeah it’s so frustrating when you hit these kind of walls.
Let me give this a try when I’m at my work machine tonight. I’ll keep you posted!
Cheers,
B.

[Blair Harrower]

Hi Jim,

Thanks again for the help with this.

Ok so I need to copy the contents of the exchange folder into AE’s plugins folder too? – I haven’t done this yet. I’ll try this shortly and let you know how I get on. I still find it strange that C4D doesn’t export the .aec properly though.

Yes, I’m using a mac – let me try copying those files and I’ll see how that goes. Failing that, I’ll send you a simple test build if thats ok? I’m a bit of a newbie here so how is best to send you files? Can you PM on here?

Thanks again!
B.

[Blair Harrower]

Thanks again for the reply.

Yes I’ve tried all of the above. The frames render fine but it seems like the problem is with c4d exporting the .aec file. The icon looks like the one you posted above plus there’s no data (1kb). C4D would usually take some time to calculate the 3d data when exporting a camera / lights but this does not behave like that.

I even tried importing the file into AE but the .aec file is greyed out. I’m 99% sure the issue lies with C4D’s exporter. Do you have to move the files in the exchange folder or something? I can’t remember ever doing this in the past?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

B.

[Blair Harrower]

Thanks for getting back to me Jim.

I did a fresh C4D install 2 days ago on a new machine. The only files in the Maxon exchange folder are the ones put there on install. These werent working so I went onto Maxon’s site and replaced them with the latest R17 ones they have in their downloads section. Still no luck unfortunately.

I’m so confused.

[Blair Harrower]

Hi guys,

I’m getting the same problem with R17. The .aec file C4D generates is unusually small plus it doesn’t seem like c4d calculates the data when it exports as it is almost instant. I’ve dropped a cube, a camera and a light into c4d and the file size it saved was 757bytes. Thats not normal is it? I’m also experiencing the issue Jim was getting with the file icon.

Please help!

Thanks,
B.