From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Preparing the Cinema 4D file for AE compositing

Preparing the Cinema 4D file for AE compositing

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

Preparing the Cinema 4D file for AE compositing

- [Narrator] So our scene in Cinema 4D is done, but we want to add some more polish to this. I want to add some color correction, I want to add some more smoke, I want to add the Particular flames here, I want to add some depth of field. And, we could do most of that, if not all of that here, in Cinema 4D, but it's just kind of an unwieldy beast. Those are really tasks, not best for actual 3-D work, and better for actual compositing. So we want to get this out of here, and into compositing. But if we just render this out as-is, and that's it, then when we take it over into After Effects, we don't have a lot of important information that we need. Such as, the location of these candle centers, and how they move in space here. Actually, let me go ahead, in this camera. I'm going to go ahead and click this little icon here. And by the way, I'm not in Cinema 4D Lite. I'm in a full version of Cinema 4D. And so, we have a little bit more attributes, and a little bit more things going on…

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