From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects
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Navigating the Cinema 4D Lite interface
From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects
Navigating the Cinema 4D Lite interface
- [Instructor] Now once you've created a Cinema 4D layer inside an After Effects project, it's probably pretty important to get comfortable navigating the interface of Cinema 4D Lite. So that's what we're going to do in this video. I want you to go to the timeline in this project and click on layer one, our C4D layer, and go up under Edit and choose Edit Original, and that will launch Cinema 4D Lite. All right, so when you're in Cinema 4D Lite, let's start right here in the middle. This is the viewport. Think of it like your composition panel. In the center of the viewport is the origin, and you'll notice it has access handles very much like any object that exists in three-dimensional space in After Effects. Now, in order to get more comfortable in the interface, let's create some geometry. In the upper right portion of the interface here, these are my create tools, and I'll click and hold on the blue tool here and choose the cube. And you can see I can choose all different kinds of…
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