Render sky with Cinema 4d Lite in After Effects

Can somebody explain how in my final render in After Effects, the sky is visible?

What sky? The Sky object? Background object? Something else?
Mylenium

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In case you haven't seen the news from Maxon today, they have come out with their own native plugin to export AE 3d comps to Cinema 4d.
http://www.maxon.net/en/news/singleview-default/article/maxon-announces-a-new-exchange-plu g-in-for-cinema-4d-and-adobe-after-effects.html

Yes. If you render out your C4D file into a format with alpha, you could very easily place a video behind it in AE. You can even easily bring your C4D camera move into AE if you wanted to. For several years Maxon has provided a plugin to bring a C4D project's cameras, lights, and nulls or solids (that have been tagged with the External Compositing Tag) into AE. Lately, however, there is another way. If you have AE CC (version 12) or CC 2014 (version 13), there's another way: details of CINEMA 4D integration with After Effects

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So I figured out my own problem. For anyone else who might happen upon this thread, hope this helps.
At the lab they must have C4D Full (or whatever the full version is called), and at home thru CC I only have Lite. That's why there's no render queue and no ability to set a filename or filetype within C4D.
The workflow I had to do is import the C4D file into an After Effects comp, and then the Cineware rendering options show up in the effects window. Last word of advice is if you need to render out an object buffer to be used as an alpha mask, make sure you select "Standard (Final)" or "Standard (Draft)" under the Renderer dropdown.

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I want to make some 3d text in cinema 4d lite to use in after effects CC 2014. Not sure about how to do it. Is some one able to tell me how to do it or direct me to a good tutorial for it? Help would be very appreciated.

There are some resources about using Cinema 4D Lite here:
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Question about Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects

Hello guys! I'm kind of new to both after effects and cinema but I was wondering if I made a project on cinema, can |I transfer it to after effects and add it to a video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjB51DYoMRQ&t=0m24s
Technically, I want to do this kind of claw animation and zoom into my adobe title.
Even better is if theres anyway of replicating this kind of animation in adobe after effects. If this can be done it would be appreciated if you could tell me how!
I have plenty of time to do this school project so any help would be very helpful! Thank you very much!
-School Student, for a project!

Yes. If you render out your C4D file into a format with alpha, you could very easily place a video behind it in AE. You can even easily bring your C4D camera move into AE if you wanted to. For several years Maxon has provided a plugin to bring a C4D project's cameras, lights, and nulls or solids (that have been tagged with the External Compositing Tag) into AE. Lately, however, there is another way. If you have AE CC (version 12) or CC 2014 (version 13), there's another way: details of CINEMA 4D integration with After Effects

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Hi ,
I just want to find out if the following method to export a video animation in after effects that also includes a cinema 4d animation is correct because it doesn't seem to be working.
I basically hit export in after effects >> add to adobe media encoder >> it opens i then select my format and it doesn't seem to work no errors just stops.
Am i going about this incorrectly?
The animation is a basic spin of a character.. Nothing hectic
Thanks

There is a bug that causes a problem with exporting a composition that uses a .c4d scene object through Adobe Media Encoder. We intend to release a fix for this bug very soon (probably next week). In the meantime, you should export a losslessly encoded master movie file from After Effects and use Adobe Media Encoder to transcode that file to your final delivery format.

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I am making an animated sequence in After Effects that after exporting I caught a few things I want to change throughout the piece. I had rendered it out as a PNG sequence, so I would like to only replace the frames that need fixing. How can I control the naming convention of the PNG files from Adobe Media Encoder? Say I wanted to render frames 1 - 200, 370 - 400, and 500-600, how could I set up each sequence so it would keep the exact frame number from the composition in its name? Right now I am just keeping track of which beginning and end frames I am using and will use Bridge to batch rename, but I would love to know if there is a way to set this up in the render.
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This sounds similar to the problem I'm having when using AME to render frame sequences from AE. The frame numbers aren't treated the same way like when you just render right in AE. No matter where your in and out is, it always starts at zero with me instead of retaining the frame numbers. VERY frustrating and have no clue why the naming conventions are different. Is this what you're talking about?

Some problems with HD movie processing in After Effects

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Composing a movie, I needed a bit sophisticated for Premiere Pro colour correction (details are posted in the Premiere forum: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3064888#3064888)
In a couple of words, I wanted to do multiple layers colour correction so as to match look of some clips shooted in different conditions.
I had no problem with creating several layers and masking them as I wanted. However, what killed me, AE blured HD movie, so I had to cease experimenting.
I wonder if someone else has encountered the same issue?

shooternz, Todd, Mylenium, thanks a lot for your willingness to help!
So that our conversation would be more efficient and effective I rather provide footages themselves instead of mere screenshots.
Here is the original source: http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2h9564/n/00030.MTS As we can see, it’s quality is far from being perfect.
So as to stabilise video, I applied proDAD Mercalli plug-in. The outcome is still acceptable: http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2h83d8/n/00030_Stabilised_.mp4
The next manipulations with multiple layers colour correction were done in AE.
First method was using Adobe dynamic links from Pr Pro to AE. After Effects created composition automatically, recognising all the necessary settings. The second one was creating new AE project, importing the source and dragging it into ‘Create a new composition’ icon – all the necessary composition settings were also created automatically.
Therefore, in first case I didn’t do a finger touch over rendering settings – all changes done in AE were automatically transferred into Pr Pro.
In second case I used ‘Best settings’ in ‘Render Settings’, ‘H.264’ in ‘Output module’ and 16 Mbps bitrate in ‘Format Options’.
Here is the result: http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2h86ch/n/Idyll._00030.mp4 (In fist case I assessed the result after exporting the footage from Pr Pro into MP4 file)
Effects applied in AE while doing colour correction: ‘Auto Levels’ and ‘Curves’.
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Erratic performance / missing footage with Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC 2014 dynamic links

Hi all,
I briefly touched on this amongst a host of other issues I has having while cutting my last project.
Unfortunately I never heard anything from anyone regarding my issues with the Dynamic Link system.
I had to bite the bullet and export (2-4K RAW) chunks of my last project, out of premiere using a Quicktime animation codec. This added an extra week to the post production process (which I did NOT get paid for).
I'm also a bit frustrated because it pushed the project past the deadline. Though the client was understanding, they were far from thrilled and it reflects poorly on me.
Anyhow. Project complete, on to the next-
This time, I'm using mostly footage shot from an FS700 in AVCHD. I figured maybe the RED footage was somehow too much for the program to handle with my specs, however I am having the same issue as last time.
I'll select a clip, or group of clips, go to replace with after effects composition, and sometimes they all make it, and often times they don't. The clips were shot within a couple minutes of one another and no settings were changed on the camera.
I've noticed sometime's the media will show up in the timeline, but not appear on the monitor (as pictured below). Other times the name of the clip will appear in the comp, but there will be nothing on the timeline OR in the monitor.
Never had this problem in CS6.
Adobe or anybody, please help! This is absolutely killing my workflow, and costing me time and money.
Here are my specs:
I'm running Adobe Premiere CC 2014 v8.1
Freshly installed Windows 7 Professional SP1 PC Desktop
Freshly installed Samsung 1TB SSD running my OS and Adobe CC
Intel Core i7-2600k CPU at 3.4GHz (8CPUs) - Watercooled
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In this case pictured the second two clips in the sequence linked into AE, but the first wont show up in my monitor.

Thank You, Jim -
Unfortunately that specifically did not work.
Based on another comment sent to me, here is what did.
In PProCC
File > Adobe Dynamic Link > New After Effects Composition
In AECC
From that composition created from PPro, I imported the project (aep) initially created in AECC from another team member. Saved the file.
Back in PProCC
File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition
Magic.

For some reason, I can't compile a video or image sequence anymore with Premiere, Media Encoder, or After Effects... All CC

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Hi,
I have been working on a video for awhile now and I've recently noticed that my .flv export format has been removed from my choice of encoders.
Check this for more information: removal of FLV and F4V export features from Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, and Premiere Pro | After Effects regio…
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Problem integrating other objects with a 3D model in After Effects

Hello there!
SO HERE'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO
For the intro to an episode of my webshow I wanted to have the camera come up from behind the couch (the current movement is a bit berserk but that's another issue) and have it come up to the television.
As it's coming to the tv, I'd like to have it show static or perhaps some bars, then change to either a series of still images or a video clip (whichever gets the job done) displaying the fake commercial to go with the narration.
Finally, after the commercial is done, the camera is to move so the tv screen fills the frame and then I'll transition to the body of the episode.
WHAT I'VE TRIED (AND SEEN FAIL)
1) Greenscreening: This is why the tv screen is the color it currently is. This doesn't work, though, since the TV image is static while camera is not and so it's as if the TV frame is shifting wildly around the image put underneath it in another layer in Premiere.
2) Laying the image over: I tried to brute force it with a layer above the imported Adobe After Effects Composition but even if I could get the camera to sit at a perfect angle for aligning the overlayed image, it only solves my problem for the middle stage (the commercial) - it seems to be impossible (or at least incredibly time consuming) to try and get the overlayed image to align for the first stage where the camera is coming across the room.
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SOME TECHNICAL DETAILS
The original model can be found here. It started as a Google Sketchup file that was exported as a .dae into Photoshop, then saved as a .psd that could be brought into After Effects.
Software being used is Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop (all CS5) and the latest edition of Google Sketchup.
Any help beyond "BUY SOFTWARE X, YOU FOOL" would be really appreciated! I've been working very hard to up the quality of my show with this latest episode and working out the intro is all that's left to do before rendering and uploading!
Cheers,
Oliver

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Mylenium

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I need help really fast i can't render my full audio equalizer from adobe after effect

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Mylenium

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