And here in this folder you should find another one which is called Cineware Support in parenthesis. And then look for the Maxon Cineware AE folder. And then once you locate the After Effects installation folder, look for the plugins folder inside it. On the Mac it will be under Applications on the PC side it will be under Program Files, Adobe. So I'm going to hide both After Effects and Cinema 4D and I'm going to locate the After Effects installation folder. Or just create a more suitable video document to use inside Cinema 4D. You may want to keep your After Effects settings whatever they might be. But I would argue that 99 percent of the cases, this is not what you want. Now of course I can return to Cinema 4D and change those settings and they will update in this single instance. So here you can see that the default size of the document that we are creating is set to 800 by 600 pixels with a duration of three seconds, 30 frames per second. So lets save this document and return to After Effects to see how it looks. And those are the three elements that appears on the composition icon inside After Effects. And this time I'm going to drag it to the sphere. And lastly I'm going to create a blue material. I'm going to drag it to the pyramid object. And then I'm going to create a new material, this one will be a green one. And I'm going to drag and drop that material on top of the cube.

I'm going to choose a red color for the cube. I'm going to give some colors to these objects by creating a new material.

So let's create a cube, then a pyramid, and also a sphere. Now just so we won't look at this great interface, I'm going to create something very basic here. In my case I'm going to click Close This Dialog and then, Cinema 4D will start. Now depending on the version that you're working with, you will see the Cinema 4D startup screen and maybe some registration information. I'm going to name mine Basic and I'm going to save it on the desktop. So to open Cinema 4D Lite, you need to go to File, New, and choose Maxon Cinema 4D file which will promote you to save the file. In this tape I'll show you how you can change the default Cinema 4D document every time you create a new file to better match a video workflow. Which may sound lite but it is actually a full blown 3D application that can talk seamlessly with After Effects via the Cineware plugin. Are you using Cinema 4D with After Effects? If not, you should know that every copy of After Effects CC comes standard with Cinema 4D Lite.

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