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Compositing in After Effects

Compositing in After Effects

From the course: Cinema 4D and After Effects: Logo Animation and Compositing

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Compositing in After Effects

- In this movie, we're going to bring our renders into After Effects from CINEMA 4d, composite it over a background, add some color correction, and get this project finished up. Let's get going. I'm going to click on File, select Import, File, and I'm going to go down to the aec compositing project that we saved inside of CINEMA 4D. Select Open. And what this is going to do, it's going to bring in all of the renders, which are here under the rgba, and then it's also going to bring in all those special passes that we created; the Object Buffers, the Motion Vector pass, and all that other good stuff. What also comes in, if I click on the precomp, you'll notice that the lights from CINEMA 4D are here as well as the CINEMA 4D camera. So, if we scrub through here, you'll see-- Now it's over the checkerboard, let's put it over the black. You'll notice a couple things. First, I hope you notice that it's very dark. You're probably thinking, "That is not the way it looked "when we rendered it…

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