[Todd Sanford]

holy crap.
You guys are so freagin cool. This is exactly what i needed. You have no idea how much this helps me,,, The preview window is still kind of a mystery for me. Sometimes it moves my scrubber marker and i can see the video. And sometimes it does nothing,,,,lol I never know when it is going to work or not. but I can always scrub and render.

I kind of get the pre-comp now. its like stuffing a bunch of junk in a null object in Cinema4D. you can use it where ever you want and all the parts and pieces will stay together and you can go back into it and tweak it if necessary.

The project file is just a place to put crap you will need while making the composition. and the main composition is your movie,,,and the pre-comp are mini scenes in the composition that you can add or remove or spread them around throughout the comp as needed. and using masks and alpha channels and precomps i can make a movie,,,,lol

i was just able to use the pen tool to mask out my background of a video of myself. then I made that a pre-comp…then i added my HUD files to the main comp along with the precomp of myself, and it looks like i am in outer space,,,lol

And i am actually able to organize it in the timeline and tweak the light reflections on to my face and stuff with out getting lost,,, this is starting to get pretty fun,,,,

THANK YOU THANK YOU

you guys rule !!!

Todd

[Todd Sanford]

Thank-you for your reply. IT was helpful and that HUD tutorial is super cool and i will go through it,,,its kind of what i am into,,,

But the exact thing i was looking for was some fun tutorial that might enlighten me on compositions and also get some practical, methodical, application of it. when people start opening up multiple compositions in a tutorial and their project windows is littered with them it is hard to follow..Plus the tabs that there are for each composition i get lost sometimes. I’m starting to get it…kind of thought i had it then i realized there are still some holes in my unde3rstanding of it and the preview button and ram rendering….

thank-you for your time

Todd