[John Cuevas]

No, you would want to do whatever moves you are going to do in C4D, render out the movie and bring it into AE.

C4D and AE work well together and you can export and import camera data, nulls, planes from one app to the other. Then when you create your 3d animation in C4D, you can bring it into AE for final composite and have the camera and it’s keyframes already working in AE.

There are a couple of plugins you need to do the export/import and they are here:
https://www.maxon.net/support/updates/plugins.html

Some tutorials that will explain the process better than I can:
https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2011/12/cinema-4d-to-after-effects-tutorial-plasma-tv/

https://vimeo.com/7226475

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[John Cuevas]

Glad you got it figured out. Hope it was before the re-install.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[John Cuevas]

In your file you are only keyframing the text, not the null. I keyframed the null and it worked fine.

Here’s you file with some changes: 4528_textv2.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If it wasn’t clear, this is an expression. Set your first and last keyframe say to rotation 0 and 360, alt-click and apply the expression

loopOut(“continue”)

and your layer will continue along the same velocity for the duration of the comp.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You might want to try deleting your preferences before you do a total re-install. If you’re on a Machold down the Command + Option + Shift keys as you start After Effects, this will allow you to delete the corrupt preference file. On a PC its Control + Alt + Shift.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

loopOut(“continue”)

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Parent your layers to the null & open up the rotation properties of both the layers and the null. Alt-click the layer and pick whip to the nulls rotation, then just put a -(minus sign) in front of the expression.

It should look something like this:

-thisComp.layer("Null 1").transform.rotation

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Its a lens flare, but not one of the standard ones that comes with AE. I use Optical Flares from Video CoPilot.

Here’s a tutorial on the cow on creating them just using the tools within AE. If you google “Lens Flare”, “After Effects” and “tutorial” you will a lot more creative ways of creating free lens flares.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I don’t know how you are really going to fix that, most importantly, the lighting doesn’t match at all. The shadows are going in two different directions, he should of been keyed from the back, not the front. If you can’t fix that issue, it will never look correct.

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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

90% of my work will be a single shot, so I’ll export from the Avid same as source, work in AE and render to one of the Avid Codecs. I use this method because my Avid and my fastest AE system aren’t on the same machine. This also frees up the Avid system if another editor needs to use it.

Occasionally I’ll get to use the pro-import though. The other day I had to convert a cuts only + titles project into Japanese. So I used the AAF export, used pro import and had everything perfectly placed. Just had to change my english titles I created in Avid to Japanese titles— Avid wouldn’t work with the Japanese fonts correctly. Finally I rendered out just the titles to one long Avid DNxHD 145 with alpha, dropped into the sequence and was done.

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Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.