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CINEMA 4D and Cineware
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Overview
Maxon CINEMA 4D Lite
Working with Cinema 4D files
CINEWARE effect
Closer integration with CINEMA 4D allows you to use Adobe After Effects and Maxon CINEMA 4D together. You can create a CINEMA 4D file
(.c4d) from within After Effects and you can work with complex 3D elements, scenes, and animations.
To enable interoperability, CINERENDER, the Maxon CINEMA 4D rendering engine, is integrated with Adobe After Effects. After Effects can
render Cinema 4D files, and you can control some aspects of rendering, camera, and scene content on a per-layer basis. This streamlined
workflow does not require you to create intermediate pass or image sequence files.
Maxon CINEMA 4D Lite
Maxon CINEMA 4D Lite R14 application gets installed along with After Effects. You can create, import, and edit Cinema 4D files. However, if you
have another edition of CINEMA 4D, such as CINEMA 4D Prime, you can use it instead. The CINEMA 4D Lite application gives you the ability to
edit, create, and work with native Cinema 4D files. The features in the Lite version are similar to CINEMA 4D Prime.
The default behavior uses the higher version of the installed Cinema 4D application. However the Cineware option in AFter Effects 12.1 offer more
flexibility.
Watch this video Overview of CINEMA 4D Lite by Chris Meyer.
Working with Cinema 4D files
There are several options available to create, import, and edit Cinema 4D files from within After Effects.
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