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Cinema4D Lite overview

Cinema4D Lite overview

- [Instructor] The 3D application called Cinema 4D Lite comes free as a part of every After Effects installation. Adobe and Maxon have teamed together to allow users new to 3D to get a taste of what a fully capable 3D program has to offer while also providing seamless integration between both applications. Now, I have included an exercise file for you to dissect, now there's nothing really to follow along with here other than taking in the overview of what Cinema 4D Lite can offer. Here in our second composition, I've got two pieces of footage, we've got some background footage of a downtown, and on top of that, we have an actual Cinema 4D scene file placed in as a layer. A large part of how this scene works is using After Effect's Camera Tracker which will cover in a future movie. I'm able to export a camera into Cinema 4D where I'm able to add in various objects and animations and then bring that entire C 4D file back…

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