From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
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Navigation tips for CINEMA 4D Lite
From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
Navigation tips for CINEMA 4D Lite
There are a few tools and hot keys which will help you navigate in Cinema 4D more easily and we're going to have a look at those now. So we're in Chapter_01_End.aep. And from within there you can select the Chapter_01_End.Cinema4D file and hit Cmd+D or Ctrll+E to open that file up in CINEMA 4D. Now here you can see the tools for moving, scaling, and rotating objects. Move is currently selected, so if I click on one of these axes, in this case the green y-axis, I can move that object up and down. And it's telling me by how much I'm moving it in the little tool tip that jumps up on top of box there. Also, down here in the Coordinates Manager, it's showing me any differences in the coordinates. Similarly, with Scale, I can adjust the scale by using these axes. Now you'll notice that as I switch from one button to the other. It changes the axes. The appearance of the axes changes. So when it's the Move tool, I get this little arrowhead. When it's a Scale tool, it changes to a square. And…
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What is CINEMA 4D Lite?4m 23s
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What CINEMA 4D Lite can't do6m 54s
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Opening CINEMA 4D Lite in After Effects2m 38s
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Quick interface tour8m 46s
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Navigation tips for CINEMA 4D Lite8m 5s
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CINEMA 4D Lite preferences and settings7m 28s
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Checking out the new CINEWARE features with After Effects CC 2014.115m 55s
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