From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 19 Motion Tracking with Cinema 4D Lite

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Compositing the shadow in After Effects

Compositing the shadow in After Effects

- In the previous movie, I separated the crown from its shadow catcher onto its own layer, taking advantage of Cinema 4D layers. But, I lost my shadow in the process. Well in this movie, we're going to take advantage of another feature of Cineware to isolate just the shadow portion of this render. To do that, I actually need to duplicate my Cinema 4D layer, because I'm going to use one copy to render the crown and another copy separately to render the shadow. So we'll duplicate, I'll rename that lower layer Shadow, disable Cinema 4D layers to get back my shadow capture. Ah, there it is. Then turn my attention to Multi-Pass, the ability to pull out separate render passes from the overall file. I'll enable Cinema 4D Multi-Pass, that only works if I'm in one of the standard renderers, it's disabled if I go to the software renderer. I'll go back to Standard (Final) and I'll set which of the render passes I want to use for this After Effects layer. I'll click Set to Multi-Pass, and rather…

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