Footage placed on object in C4D doesn't show in AE

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November 17, 2021
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Using an AE 22.0.1 (Build 2) with C4D R24 Lite on Windows 10 Dell XPS laptop, Intel Graphics HD620 with driver 10.0.19041.1 (seems outdated since the last one is 27.20 but nevertheless PR, AE work fine). An image placed on on an object as a material texture in C4D shows fine in AE composition, but a video placed on an object as a material texture plays in C4D but cannot be seen in AE composition. In the AE composition can be seen only the object's black outline but not the video itself. How can it be solved?

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Mylenium

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Without any info about the texture type, mapping settings, render settings in Cineware, possibly any texture tag trickery, layered materials and whatever one could imagine nobody can tell you much. The most likely assumption would have to be that the video is not placed in a proper "texture path" as you configure them in the C4D global and project settings and thus for soem reason cannot be found. Or it's simply a wacky type of footage that may necessitate conversion to an image sequence or similar. either way, you have to provide much more info and possibly screenshots.

Mylenium

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izikw6065700Author

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I tried to do a very simple thing - created a new C4D file in AE, created a polygon in C4D, created a material and as a texture placed the mp4 video on it and placed the material on the polygon. After checking that the video plays in C4D (screenshot 1), I saved the project. In AE I can see the video as a static image in the footage panel (screenshot 2), but the video does not play.
Tried also to create a composition for this C4D file with a 3d renderer: Cinema 4D, then I cannot even see the video as a stil image but only a grey polygon that is still (screenshot 3).
Please find sceenshots attached.

Jose Panadero

Community Expert

There are 2 things you can try. The first one is converting the video to a image sequence as suggested by Mylenium. The second one is to activate the Material Cache in Cinema for Cineware to share with AE. Go to Project Settings in Cinema (under Edit menu) then, you will have access to a Cineware tab in the Attributes panel. Activate the Save Material Cache option. Then go to After Effects and be sure yur have selected Viewport in the Renderer option in Cineware plugin.

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