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After Effects project and composition settings

After Effects project and composition settings

Although there is an after effects 3D render pipeline between After Effects, and CINEMA 4D Lite, there's some information that they don't share, namely their project settings, and their composition settings. Therefore, it's up to you to manually synchronize your composition settings in After Effects, to the project settings in CINEMA 4D, and also to take some of the similar 4D project settings, and to bring those back into After Effects. This is something you need to do every time you start a project that uses CINEMA 4D Lite in conjunction with After Effects. In this movie, we'll cover what you need to set up what information you need to get out of After Effects, and then the next one will cover the CINEMA 4D side of the equation. The first thing you need to do is open up your File, Project Settings, and make a couple of important changes here. One, CINEMA 4D is actually color manged, which is a very nice thing. It's rare among 3D applications. It defaults to the sRGB working space…

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