[Ruud Van gerven]

Hey Nadja!

Your welcome. I’ve never exported directly from SE to AE so i don’t know how that chances from C4D to AE. To be honest i would try to find another tutorial about exporting from SE to AE because thats probably “easyer”.

This is how it works (in a nut shell :p ) from SE to C4D to AE:

First you import your footage to SE and do all the tracking to create a scene. SE (Version 2008) doesn’t have an export to C4d but no worries, just export to Lightwave and open that file into c4d.

In c4d you are gonna create an object that will function as your ipad text replacement in AE. With use of the tracking points from SE, place a plane and position them at the tracking points so that it moves correctly with the realworld camera.

Add an external compositing tag to your plane layer by right clicking your layer > Cinema4d tags > external compositing. Then enable the checkbox “Solid” and at Size X & Y enter the size of your plane.

The go to render settings and setup your regular save setting. Then go go to Save > “Compositing Project File” field. Enable “save” “Include timline marker” “Include 3D marker” and save your project file.

Now render your file.

Open the blablab.AEC after effects file. Thats about it. In AE open the composition and u can replace the solid layer with your ipad text by dropping it on the solid layer.

Now this is how it should work. I just tested it but had some issues. Im currently on a pc with AE CS5,5 and C4D R13. Tonite im gonna test my c4d r11 version to see if that makes a difference. Ill get back about that later.

I hope my above explination makes any sense haha, and good luck!

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

Add a compositing tag to your floor by right clicking your floor layer > cinema 4d tags > compositing and enable “compositing background”. U have to render to see the effect.

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

haha yep multrocessing makes a big difference.

[Ruud Van gerven]

You’re welcome Zach! I’m glad you found a workaround and i hope the reinstall will fix the problem 🙂

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

Hey Joshua,

In AE go to Edit > Preferences > Memory & Multiprocessing. U can try to change the ram reserved for other applications. Maybe that helps. U can also press Ctrl+Alt+*(from numpad) to clear all memory in AE.

Gd luck,

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

Hey Paul,

In AE go to Effects > Blur & Sharpen > Gaussian blur. Then change the Bluriness values, set a key frame, move your time slider, change the value again (this should set a new key frame automaticly)

This solution will put your entire footage out of focus, not just a single flower.

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

Hey Nadja,

I don’t have experience with exporting tracking data directly into aftereffects. I recommend using cinema4d and export to AE from there, ive made something similar in the past and it worked pretty well.

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

Hey Zach,

Hmm seems like a very anoying problem. I don’t know of an inmidiate solution but i wanna help anyways. U could try to run AE as administrator, maybe you’re having permission problems..

As for increment. This option makes a new savefile with a different name. If your original file would be called footage.ae then increment would make a new version called footage_1.ae. This is very usefull if you wanna have backups of important phases of your project.

Gd luck with the problem!

Grtz Ruud

[Ruud Van gerven]

Hey Jesse,

I can’t see your video, but i think i know what you mean. What you are looking for is object tracking. After effects does have tracking plugins but i’m not sure if they support moving objects. I know that Syntheyes supports moving objects. With syntheyes u can track your skateboard footage and export points or a mesh to c4d. Then u can place your pig model at those points or mesh.

Grtz Ruud