

Maxon is offering a 40% price reduction on upgrade to the Broadcast or Studio edition of Cinema 4D from Cinema 4D Lite.Ībility to open CINEMA 4D to create new CINEMA 4D scene layers from within After Effects (If you have another version of CINEMA 4D installed in addition to the CINEMA 4D Lite version, these commands will open the other version.) You will not see this version of CINEMA 4D installed in the Start menu on Windows or in the Applications directory on Mac OS. You open the version of CINEMA 4D that is installed with After Effects using the New > MAXON CINEMA 4D File command or the Edit Original command in After Effects. Here’s a comparison between all of the CINEMA 4D versions. The version of CINEMA 4D included with the After Effects installer is CINEMA 4D Lite R14, which is comparable to CINEMA 4D Prime R14 CINEMA 4D Lite has some features not in CINEMA 4D Prime, and vice versa. Inclusion of CINEMA 4D application in After Effects installerĬINEMA 4D is installed by the After Effects installer.

Nick Campbell’s FAQ list and video tutorial series about the new integration.

Nick Campbell (Greyscale Gorilla) giving two overviews, one for After Effects folks and one for CINEMA 4D folks.beautiful graphical demonstration from Maxon.Now, let’s get to the nitty-gritty details.įirst, here’s a list of resources that demonstrate and discuss these features in even more detail than I’m going to provide here (as well as being much prettier than the current plain-text blog post from a words guy): In our list of what’s new and changed in After Effects CC (12.0), we gave an overview of what’s included with regard to CINEMA 4D and its integration with After Effects.
