how do i import a aec file in after effects cc?

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August 23, 2013
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im having problems with the object buffers not working correctly when a i extract them from the C4D file. Not liking this work flow at all. Is there a way to import a AEC file into After Effects CC?

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Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

Has this new importer plug-in been introduced? I'm having issues importing aec files. the sequences are importing but camera data, nulls and lights are not.

See this for a bug fix in the Maxon Cinema 4D exchange plug-in for After Effects CC: http://adobe.ly/PUHVms

JeffBriant

Participant

I since figured this out... AEC's work exactly the same, actually better than they did before(more stable). You just need to go to Maxon's site and download the latest plug-in. Here: MAXON | 3D FOR THE REAL WORLD: Plugins

importing a c4d project directly into ae(cineware) works but has limitations and time/project backup issues. When working on a large show, you need to work with EXR's and not with 200MB scene files in ae, that slows so much of the work down.

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p0rkbu5

Participant

Thanks for the responses!

Eikonoklastes - i was hoping to avoid cineware because processing seems to crawl with AE handling the C4D project files. seems like i can still move much faster if i let C4D do the heavy lifting. just need to import my camera into AE

JeffBriant - Thank you! I will download that new plug. Am i crazy, or did that R16 version not exist like 2 days ago??

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eikonoklastes

Legend

You can now import a Cinema 4D file directly into AE and bypass the AEC workflow. Once you have the scene in AE, check the Effects panel and first check "Defined Multi-Passes" and then click "Add Image Layers" to access your multi-pass layers you've defined within C4D..

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davidp158

Known Participant

I presume this is the problem others are experiencing. When I place the C4DImporter plugin into my AE CC plug-ins folder, I get the 3 following error messages when launching AE CC:

AEGP Plugin SDK_IO: Could not register file type. ( 5027 :: 12 )

AEGP Plugin SDK_IO: Could not register the plugin. ( 5027 :: 12 )

After Effects error: internal verification failure, sorry! {Unexpected FuntionsBlock5 flags for FunctionBlock4} ( 5027 :: 53 )

Without the C4DImporter.plugin in the plugins folder AE CC will not recognize .aec files (they are dimmed/grayed out). After launching AE CC, with the errors above, AE will recognize and open .aec files, but do the errors suggest the plugin will cause problems with AE CC? CIneware is nice, but too slow for complex scenes. Can I temporarily move the Cineware plugins out of AE when I'm using the C4DImporter pluging? Bouncing between CS6 and AE CC is bound to trip me up, so I'd rather stick with AE CC. BTW, I have C4D R15 Studio, so I don't need Cineware Lite. Any workaround solutions would be appreciated.

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miF

Participant

Same problems here. Since I prefer the "old" workflow (rendering directly out of Cinema) but hate getting those errors, I decided to dump the "buggy" C4Dimporter.plugin and use the "Extract C4D Scene Data" Command from the CINEWARE FX instead. I'm aware this does not solve the problem in any way, but for me it's an acceptable workaround.

Todd_Kopriva

Inspiring

The importer plug-in should still work fine in After Effects CC; it's just causing these spurious (and admittedly annoying) error messages on start-up. Let us know whether you're able to use the importer, once you've dismissed these error messages.

Maxon is working on issuing a new version of their importer plug-in that doesn't give these error messages. One of my coworkers is in contact with them about this to see when that will be available.