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Setting up your 3D scene

Setting up your 3D scene

From the course: 3D Tracking and After Effects Compositing

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Setting up your 3D scene

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- [Instructor] Okay, so let's start setting up our 3D scene in Cinema 4D Lite. Now we have a couple ways we can do this. We can go up to the File menu, go under New and create a MAXON Cinema 4D File, and that'll create a file that will be imported into After Effects and open up Cinema 4D Lite with the default settings. But we're going to do this a little different. We're going to take our composition, our Camera02_3D, which is our undistorted comp, and we're going to use the settings that are set up for this already to set up our Cinema 4D file. So to do that, we select our comp in the Project window and then go to File, Export, MAXON Cinema 4D Exporter. And we get this warning, and that's just because there's 2D layer. But you can disregard that. And we'll find our AE folder, and let's just write right over the one that I had made previous, camera_scene. Hit Save and Replace. Now we're going to have to bring that back in to After Effects. So we're going to Import, File, and just open…

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