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As nice as this system is, it does have its limitations. One, 3D renders are often much slower than 2D, meaning you will find it slower to move through the After Effects timeline. Two, because CINEWARE is rendering the C4D scene all by itself, its results cannot currently intermingle with After Effects’ 3D layers; in other words, there are no intersections or automatic shadows between those worlds. This is the way essentially all “3D” plug-ins in After Effects work – including popular choices 3D Invigorator and
d In This Lesson 362 CINEMA 4D user interface 363 Project and Render Settings 364 frame rate issues 366 navigating the Viewport 367 Extrude object 368 Light Setups 369 Materials 370 texture selection and projection 371 Ambient Occlusion 372 cameras 373 keyframing 374 CINEWARE Render Settings 375 extract camera and lights 376 creating text 378 importing Illustrator files 379 Fracture object 380 Plain effector 383 render quality; Interactive Render Region 384 Target Light 386 using the After Effects camera 387 Object Buffers 390 importing model 392 shadows 393 using layers 394 Multi-Pass
ProAnimator by Zaxwerks and Video Copilot’s Element 3D. Also, C4D Lite is indeed a feature-reduced version of the full program. If you already have a full version of CINEMA 4D or another full 3D program, in most cases you’re better off using it instead of C4D Lite. But if you need more robust 3D than After Effects itself provides, and you don’t have the budget for any of these other solutions, C4D Lite can be very useful.
