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Importing a CINEMA 4D file into a scene

Importing a CINEMA 4D file into a scene

From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects

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Importing a CINEMA 4D file into a scene

I've tracked this footage here from art beats with a 3D camera tracker in After FX to create a camera and lighting to then compose the 3D elements into the scene. And I'm going to do that now. We're in chapter 905 AEP. If you want to follow along, you can open up that project. We're going to have a look at a couple of ways of compositing the elements together. First in After Effects and then in Cinema 4D. So I'm going to start by importing my Cinema 4D file into After Effects. And then I'll show you how to do it the other way around. Bring in After Effects comp into Cinema 4D. So, what we'll do is, we'll double-click down here in the Project panel. And that will open the Import File dialogue box where I can select chapter 9_05.c4d. And that's the file we're going to import into our After Effects project. Now, you'll see it appears here in the project. But in order to bring it into my comp, I need to drag it into the comp. So I'm going to drag it down to the timeline and just release…

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