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Setting up layers in CINEMA 4D

Setting up layers in CINEMA 4D

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

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Setting up layers in CINEMA 4D

- Up until now we've worked on individual layers that contain all of the elements for the Cinema 4D file. But there are times where it makes sense to break things into individual elements and to treat them as individual elements within After Effects. If you're used to a layer-based, compositing work flow, then working in layers is a good option. And we're gonna have a look at how you can work with layers in Cinema 4D, and how you can take those layers and use them in Cineware to isolate all the elements within the scene. Now we're in Chapter10_Start.aep. If you want to follow along, you can open that project, too. And the first thing I'm gonna do is select Chapter10_Start, and I'm gonna hit cmd+e to edit original. That's gonna open up Cinema 4D Lite R16, which is the version that I have installed on this machine. And this tutorial covers all of the new features in regard to layers in version R16. There's a few differences, both in Cinema 4D and the way that you set up the layers, and…

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