Cinema 4D into Shake

Which version of C4D do you have??? I get no such option. Did I miss it?

Or, are you talking about sending camera moves to shake?

CaptM

I use C4d all the time but have yet to render a file to Shake. I think the option was added to C4d in v9.5 (I'm running 9.6 here).

I give it a go and report back 🙂

Edit-
I just looked up the 9.5 Addendum PDF and came up with this:
'You can read more about what the “Compositing Project File” is good for in chapter 13 in your CINEMA 4D reference manual.' So I guess that's my next stop 🙂

And,
Just to show off a bit, here's a QT of my most recent project. A very, very limited amount of Shake work was done on it. In fact, I think AE, FCP and/or Motion would have handled the Shake part just as well. Anyway, here it is (2Mb, .h264): http://www.jmtype.com/clips/CubeSpinDropMD.mov

Cool Vizzini! Care to elaborate on where you used what?

Patrick

OK, well...
The procedure in an abridged nutshell:
-Videos shot with a Sony HVR-A1 in HDV and in-cam downconverted to SD.
-Captured in FCP5.1, sent to Shake (to tweak colors, gamma, etc for the heck of it), back to FCP and exported out as PS image sequences.
-Each frame then cropped in PS (Automated batch actions), resulting in 4, 2.5" square tiffs per frame.
-Cubes created in C4d9.6.
-Tiff files loaded in as animated textures.
-Initial rotations rendered out in 30 frames each as PS image sequences. Each set of 30 equalled 1 turn.
-Much more unwritten stuff here about frames and image sequences, a C4d dynamics based plug called PhyTools, blah, blah, blah.
-Rendered out 150 frames.
-Comp'ed in AE (could have gone to Shake though).

From what I can tell through the C4d manual as well as trial and error, C4d can export compositing render passes to Shake so that you can mess with the way each pass interacts with the others. So far all I get are fileIn and multilayer nodes by exporting that way though. Still playing... 🙂

HAHAHA!!!

FUN!!

Off to try myself!!

I did this one a few months ago...

http://homepage.mac.com/captmench/preview.mov

CaptM

Gotta love cubes!
So, what's the workflow for that one Capt.?

Here's my guess though I've only just now done it and I'm not sure what I should be getting:
In the C4d render settings dialog box, choose 'depth' in the 'Multi-Pass' settings under the 'Channels' fly out. Then, in the same 'Multi-Pass' section (but below), choose your file format and path. When you render, C4d also renders a depth' pass which I think is a z-pass.

Now, when you open the Shake script, all you get is the fileIn node which loads your main render, and a multiLayer node. To get the depth pass you'll need to add your own fileIn and using that pull in the C4d depth render.

Once you do that, well... I'm not got past that part yet, sorry.

It was all done in C4d...

Just messin with cubes and reactions

CaptM

Just messin with cubes and reactions

Kind of off topic here (my bad) but when you say 'reactions,' does this mean you have the Dynamics module? I've using 9.6XL w/S&T, HAIR and MoGraph. I thought about Dynamics (and the Studio bundle) but couldn't justify the cost at the time. Last year I bought PhyTools by Remotion and am now a beta for him. Not that I've yet a clue as to all it can do but I'm one of the Mac users so...

Anyway, I've just started thinking about rendering C4d things for use in AE, Motion and/or Shake so the original post was timely.

Oh and BTW, wouldn't the video parts of the cube thing I showed have been a job for corner pinning in Shake? I suppose that would have been more work though.

Back on the z-channel stuff...
While I've not done it myself, I know C4d can export openEXR format.
Here's a plug that is supposed to let Shake import that:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/...e-1.0.1.tar.gz

Here's the forum and thread where I found it:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6517

Yes -- dynamics... a little gravity goes a long way.

And I wouldn't have tried to pin in shake... best to lock them on the cubes in 3D. I wouldn't want to pin them in Shake... though I'm sure it can be done, the 3d-ness of it would make a BUNCH of extra steps.

CaptM

Actually -- THIS was the one I was looking for... smaller too: http://homepage.mac.com/captmench/3D.mov

Silly little plane, I know.

CaptM