

Motion Designer and YouTuber Sean Frangella shared this pair of tutorials on how to use the new Cinema 4D Renderer in After Effects CC 2017. Cinema 4D Lite Tutorials for Film Editors If you’re looking for a complete feature list of what’s actually in the Lite version of Cinema 4D, you’ll just have to thumb your way through this detailed version comparison and keep an eye on the final column. Add 3D content as layers to your composites and work with individual Cinema 4D elements such as cameras, layers, Null objects and light directly in After Effects CC. With Cineware, Cinema 4D files can be opened natively in Adobe After Effects CC. One of the main advantages of Cinema 4D Lite’s integration with After Effects is Cineware 3.0, which brings some key functionality from Cinema 4D directly into After Effects.Īs you’ll see in the following tutorials from Sean Frangella, this has some serious advantages, even if you don’t do much in Cinema 4D Lite itself. This short video from Adobe, you can get a quick overview of the kind of interoperability you have been After Effects and Cinema 4D Lite and a few simple interactions all of which will help set the stage for everything that’s to follow. Missed Part 1 and Part 2? Check them out here:Īfter Effects for Editors Part 1 | After Effects for Editors Part 2 Hopefully this post will both inspire and inform you of what the deeper end of the pool might look like when it comes to motion graphics, titles, 3D compositing and more!īut there will also be plenty of great After Effects focused tips and tutorials to enjoy in Part 4 so keep an eye out for that too. Since every copy of After Effects ships with a Lite version of Cinema 4D it’s already in your hands if you are a Creative Cloud subscriber so you may as well learn how to make the most of it!įurthermore Cinema 4D Studio R18, the most recent release, has some reallly cool new features in it that are worth knowing about. In this edition of the on-going series focusing on After Effects for Film Editors I’m going to take a slightly different tack, and leap into the world of Cinema 4D Lite and the full Studio versions of Maxon’s popular 3D software. Get inspired with detailed breakdowns of some epic Motion Design projects.Learn how to pick the right version of Cinema 4D for your needs.Take a deep dive into what’s possible in Cinema 4D Lite and R18 Studio.

After Effects for Film Editors – Part 3 – The Cinema 4D Edition
