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Render setting management for efficiency sake

Render setting management for efficiency sake

From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects

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Render setting management for efficiency sake

- [Instructor] Now when you're navigating working between Cinema 4D Lite and After Effects, it pays to use efficient techniques for previewing and rendering in order to actually have the quickest times working and not be wasting your time waiting for things to refresh. So first and foremost, I want you to go and select layer one in the timeline and go to your Effect controls here and this will open Cineware and Cineware manages the exchange of information between Cinema 4D Lite and After Effects. So the first thing you can adjust is right here in the Renderer settings, if I click on this dropdown and choose Software, that's going to give me a software preview of anything that I've created inside of Cinema 4D Lite. Now since there isn't any animation on this object, I'm going to go ahead and animate it in Cinema 4D Lite so I'll select layer one in the timeline, go up under Edit and choose Edit Original to launch Cinema 4D Lite. Now all I want to do is add a simple spin to this extruded…

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