The After Effects CC 2014 Plug-in Software Development Kit contains headers defining the After Effects Plug-in APIs, sample projects demonstrating integration features, and the SDK Guide documentation. Effect plug-ins described in the SDK can not only run in After Effects, but also Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Premiere Elements. On that page, click on the link that reads “Plugins for After Effects CC CINEMA 4D R14/R15 connection.' The plugin should be installed in the main After Effects plugin directory or under plugins/Maxon Cineware AE (Windows) Program Files Adobe Adobe After Effects CC 2014 Support Files Plug-ins.
After Effects CC 2014 (13.0) and later do not include exporters for creating H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV videos directly from the render queue. To create videos in these formats, you can use Adobe Media Encoder.
Note:
You can still import videos in these formats into After Effects.
Adobe Media Encoder is effective for creating files in final delivery formats because of its Preset Browser and easy-to-use system for creating, saving, sharing, and applying encoding presets. Using the Effects tab settings, you can automatically add watermarks, timecode overlays, and so on. You have two primary options for using Adobe Media Encoder with After Effects to create videos in H.264, MPEG-2, and WMV formats:
- Render and export a losslessly encoded master file out of After Effects to a watch folder monitored by Adobe Media Encoder.
- Send the composition directly to Adobe Media Encoder from After Effects (Composition > Add To Adobe Media Encoder Queue).
Note:
If you still need to create videos in these formats from the After Effects render queue, install After Effects CC (12.2.1) alongside After Effects CC 2014 (13.0) or later, and use the previous version for these specific output tasks.
Render and export a losslessly encoded master file
The fastest way to create videos in these formats is to use the After Effects render queue to export a losslessly encoded master file (for example, using the PNG video codec in a QuickTime .mov container file) to a watch folder that Adobe Media Encoder monitors. You can assign encoding presets to a watch folder in Adobe Media Encoder so that it automatically encodes using whichever settings you specify.
- Advantage: This method uses After Effects performance features for rendering (such as GPU acceleration and multiprocessing where applicable) and Adobe Media Encoder performance features for encoding (such as parallel encoding).
- Disadvantage: This method occupies the main After Effects application for the entire rendering operation, during which time you can’t use After Effects for anything else.
Send the composition directly to Adobe Media Encoder
Another method to create videos in these formats is to directly add the composition from After Effects to the Adobe Media Encoder queue. This method allows you to continue working in After Effects while the rendering and encoding takes place, since the rendering is performed by a background instance of After Effects. The rendering phase may be slower in some cases (compared with using the After Effects render queue) because the headless version of After Effects rendering in the background does not have access to GPU acceleration and multiprocessing features.
Note:
If you place an After Effects project (.aep) file in a watch folder that is being monitored by Adobe Media Encoder, the compositions at the top level in the project (i.e., those not in folders in the Project panel) will automatically be added to the Adobe Media Encoder encoding queue.
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When working with Cinema 4D files that use the external compositing tag within After Effects CC 2014, non-linear animation created with Spline type keyframes does not match the timing displayed inside Cinema 4D.
Solution - Update to Adobe After Effects 13.1 or later
If you are still having difficulties, you can try these two workarounds. If these workarounds do not help, please contact support for further troubleshooting.
First Workaround: Edit compositing information in After Effects
Use After Effects 12.2 (CC) to extract the compositing information from
the C4D file, then open that saved project file inside of After Effects
CC 2014.
Second Workaround: Use C4DImporter plugin within retail version of Cinema 4D
Note:
This solution requires that you have a full retail version of Cinema 4D r14 or r15.
To prepare, you must install the C4DImporter plugin available from Maxon. To get this plugin, go to this page http://www.maxon.net/en/support/updates/plugins.html. On that page, click on the link that reads “Plugins for After Effects CC <> CINEMA 4D R14/R15 connection.'
The plugin should be installed in the main After Effects plugin directory or under plugins/Maxon Cineware AE
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Make sure Save is checked and click the Save subgroup.
Click File… and put in a filename and location to store a workaround file
Under Compositing Project File, make sure Save is checked.
Make sure Target Application is set to After Effects
Inside After Effects, Import the AEC project file.
This will create two folders, a Solids folder and a Folder named for the File name you selected in step 6.
Open the Folder name you chose in Step 6, and open the composition.
Copy any Solids or Nulls from this composition into your main composition.