Tutorial 5

Tutorial 5: Cinema 4D into After Effects

Run integrations/cinema4d/MographJailed_C4DScraper.py under c4dpy (read-only) to get a scene receipt, plus an After Effects receipt as in tutorial 3. Then:

$ mj scene last --summary
Logo Sting.c4d (Cinema 4D 2026.3, redshift renderer)

1920 x 1080 at 24 fps, frames 0 to 71 (72 frames, 3.00 seconds).
Output: none set
...
2 textures; 1 missing (tex/chrome_normal.png).

mj scene last runs the scene lint (rules C001-C009: missing and absolute textures, empty output path, standard materials in Redshift, and so on), each with why, fix and a before/after example.

The bridge

$ mj bridge last last
Logo Sting.c4d against Summer Sale.aep: 1 layer used in After Effects.
The scene is 1920 x 1080 at 24 fps, 72 frames (3.00 seconds), redshift.

Error: Comp "Sting" runs at 30 fps; the scene is 24 fps.
  ...

The first last is the scene, the second the After Effects project. The bridge compares frame rate, size, length and the footage names that point at the scene's renders (rules B001-B005).

Note: the Cinema 4D scraper has not yet been validated against a real Cinema 4D; see docs/MJ_C4D_SCRAPE_1.md.

Next: client handoff.