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Merging the AE camera into C4D

Merging the AE camera into C4D - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Merging the AE camera into C4D

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- [Voiceover] I have my crown in After Effects following the camera move that I extracted in After Effects. That's great. However, I suspect these two roles are still not quite the same. 'Cause while I'm looking at the crown from an angle like this or straight on at the end of my clip when I go back to cinema I have this default view on this crown. It'd be great if the two could use the same cameras in both programs if I could make sure that my perspectives match. I can do that. Let's go back to After Effects and with the Cinema 4D layer selected go back to the effect controls panel and underneath commands click merge. That will merge this After Effects camera into the cinema 4D project. Now here's a small gotcha. You might think that camera actually is in the file. I'll even save my After Effects project. If I tab back to cinema 4D I see no camera inside this object manager. I found that quite often I need to actually close the cinema project then reopen it. File, open, go up and…

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