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Prof Josh
Prof Josh
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October 31, 2021
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After Effects won't start up Cinema4D - version error message

  • October 31, 2021
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I have new installations of After Effects (22.0.0 Build 111) and Cinema 4D (R25.015 - student license). In After Effects,  I go to Layer > New Maxon Cinema 4D File and after I enter a file name, I get an error message:


After Effects error: Code (A_Err_GENERIC): This version of AE requires and installation of Cinema 4D R24 (24.111 or later). This can be installed by the AE installer. ( 0 :: 1)

 

Any ideas? I have the latest R25.015 installed so I'm not sure what is going on here. I don't know how to access the "AE Installer". What is that? I installed AE with the Creative Cloud app. 

 

My laptop is relatively old Macbook Pro 2017, 16GB quad core i7 with macOS Monterey (12.0.1)

 

 

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Correct answer thatsmauri

It's incompatible with After Effects 22.0:

 

"The current version of After Effects (22.0) only supports Cinema 4D vR24 (installer included). However, the latest Cinema 4D vR25 is compatible with After Effects versions earlier than 22.0. If your workflow requires features only available in Cinema 4D R25, please use After Effects 2021 (version 18.4 or above). Support for R25-only features in After Effects 2022 will be available in a future update."

(Text excerp from https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/c4d.html)

 

By default, After Effects installs a feature-restricted version of Cinema 4D called Cinema 4D Lite.

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jakemorris1115C0C
Participant
September 28, 2022

Installing the Maxon app, and then installing C4D R25 was the solution for me. 

Here's the link to download R25. Godspeed, I hope this is a fix for whoever needs it. 

https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinema-4d-r25-downloads

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    Graphics27057429wqci
    Participant
    November 10, 2022

    Thanks, man. its working.

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    rpaulseymour
    Known Participant
    December 17, 2021

    Okay, easier done than said.

     

    1. I simply installed the "The Maxon App"

    2. I installed the "latest vesrsion" of Cinma 4D (after being asked to close AE)

    3. It installed

    4. Reopened AE and did File > New > Maxon Cinema 4D File... 

    5. C4D opened, and bam... Bob's your uncle.

     

    Yea!

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      Angel Rittenburg
      Participant
      May 3, 2022

      Thanks rpaulseymnour !

      I'm wondering what version of AE and C4D you are running??

       

      I currently have C4D v26 and am running into problems with AE ... so I'm uninstalling AE 22 then installing AE 18 (as that's the only previous version CC Installer offers). I do have C4D v23 installed, so hopefully AE 18 will work.

       

      Wishing your Uncle Bob would visit me!! Ugh...

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      RyanScammell
      Inspiring
      July 28, 2022

      Yeah. I'm a little confused here. I have a full license for C4D R26.107 installed and am running AE 22.5.  I just uninstalled AE 22.5 and reinstalled it in the hopes it would install whatever C4D Lite it needs installed to import C4D projects into AE, but it's still giving me the error message above. It says I can install this via the AE installer but I don't see where that option is.  And if I've uninstalled 22.5 and reinstalled it, presumably it would install whatever it needs, right?  Is the issue here that my full C4D version being R26 is causing some issue?

      thatsmauri
      Community Expert
      thatsmauriCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      October 31, 2021

      It's incompatible with After Effects 22.0:

       

      "The current version of After Effects (22.0) only supports Cinema 4D vR24 (installer included). However, the latest Cinema 4D vR25 is compatible with After Effects versions earlier than 22.0. If your workflow requires features only available in Cinema 4D R25, please use After Effects 2021 (version 18.4 or above). Support for R25-only features in After Effects 2022 will be available in a future update."

      (Text excerp from https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/c4d.html)

       

      By default, After Effects installs a feature-restricted version of Cinema 4D called Cinema 4D Lite.

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        rpaulseymour
        Known Participant
        December 17, 2021

        https://www.maxon.net/en/article/cinema-4d-lite-r25-now-available

        "Maxon is pleased to announce that the latest update to Adobe® After Effects® includes Cinema 4D Lite (Release 25)."

         

        Seems like Adobe's documentation is out of date. 

        So... OP's question not answered. I have the same one. 

        Anyone? Anyone? 

         

        @Prof Josh Please, unmark this is answered so maybe Adobe or someone else can figure this out. Thanks for posting!

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        m_burk
        Participant
        October 12, 2023

        Fyi -- looks like I just solved it on my end.  I installed Cinema 4D R25 direct from Maxon website and now I'm no longer getting the error message in AE.  I still have R26.107 installed on my machine and will still plan to use that for any C4D work, but I'm guessing R25 installed something, somewhere that helps AE see what it needs to see. Why its default installation isn't installing whatever it needs to C4D Lite, I don't know, but this seems to have solved things at least for now on my end.


        Thanks @RyanScammell, it worked with 22.6.5 🙂

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