You can access the CINEWARE help from the button on the CINEWARE effects panel in After Effects.  Meshes now appear in your C4D comp you can work on compositing them into the scene.ĬINEWARE has many options and capabilities to aid your efforts, though it requires that you know Cinema 4D.  Meanwhile, After Effects has run the javascript, resulting in a CINEWARE layer that looks at the C4D file. fbx file in Cinema 4D, then File/Save as a Cinema 4D  Optionally, SynthEyes can launch Cinema 4D (see below).  The exporter produces a jsx javascript as usual, plus a Filmbox fbx for C4D.  You run the After Effects exporter, and turn on the C4D integration feature (which is OFF by default). The net effect is an indirect way to get 3D rendering in After Effects, which otherwise lacks this capability.

The SynthEyes to After Effects exporter can simultaneously export a Filmbox FBX file for Cinema 4D, plus automatically include the CINEWARE effect and layer to automatically include a rendered version of the C4D scene in the AE comp. After Effects contains standard built-in facilities for integrating 3D effects using MAXON's Cinema 4D (C4D) animation software: After Effects even contains a 'free' Cinema 4D Lite package.

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