Video Tutorial: Cinema 4D Lite vs Cinema 4D Studio

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Learn the important differences between Cinema 4D Studio and Cinema 4D Lite in this fun tutorial from EJ Hassenfratz.
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EJ Hassenfratz (00:00): Hey, I'm EJ Hassenfratz for school of motion in today's video, I'm going to be covering the main differences between the light and studio versions of cinema 4d. There's lot of confusion out there as to what version does, what, what version you need. And that's what we're going to be covering in this video today.

Music (00:20): [intro music]

EJ Hassenfratz (00:29): One of the things a lot of people don't know is that if you own a subscription to creative cloud, you actually own a copy of cinema 4d and it's that cinema 4d light version. The thing is, is it's a little hard to get to. And the reason for that is, is you actually have to open cinema 4d light through after effects. I know it's a little weird, but here's how you open up cinema 4d light. You just go in after effects, go to file new max on cinema 40 file. And once you jump on that, it will then prompt you to save an entitled default file. I'm just going to save this to desktop and I'll, I've done this before, so I'm just going to replace that. And what's going to happen is that's going to launch cinema 4d light. So, boom, you now have a copy of cinema 4d that you have full access to as long as you have your creative cloud subscription access, which is pretty cool.

EJ Hassenfratz (01:23): So you might be thinking, all right, I'm all set here. I have a version of cinema 4d. Why would I need to shell out my cold hard cash for the full studio version when I have cinema 4d already? So that's what we're going to be talking about in this video and talking about the differences between light and studio. So let's go ahead and begin by talking about what is included in the light version of cinema 4d. All right. So the first thing you're going to notice is we have the full blown cinema 4d interface, and mostly this is the same as what you would see in cinema 4d studio version. So in this regard, light is really great for getting used to how cinema 4d works in where everything is as well as just kind of navigating around in 3d space. So we have most of the menus that we have in studio.

EJ Hassenfratz (02:11): We have our primitives menu where you can create basic 3d shapes. We have the pen tool where you can actually draw spline shapes, and we have all these different spline shape objects here as well. And basically spines are the cinema 4d equivalent of like aftereffects path. So we can get the Bentall here. Just kind of draw a little blobby here in Walla. There you go. Actually, I like the pen tools in cinema four D a little bit better than I like in after effects. Actually it's pretty, uh, intuitive, but, uh, so once you create splines, uh, outside of, you know, great, uh, creating these basic 3d shapes using splines in what's called generator objects, and light has a small selection of some of the generator objects that studio has. Um, basically what gener generator objects do is allows you to create geometry based on splines.

EJ Hassenfratz (03:05): So I have like an extrude here. We all know what extrude is. You have it in aftereffects, but basically you can place a spline as a child of the extrude object and boom. We have some 3d geometry that if I hit this button that renders the current active view, you can see, Hey, we got some geometry. You look, mom 3d in a, but basically like creating these basic shapes, creating splines, and then creating geometry based off those splines using generators is two of the only ways you can create a geometry in cinema 4d lay, unless you actually import in a model, uh, the modeling tools are not available inside of cinema 4d light. So that's, that's a thing. We have a lot of other generator objects like an array or a ball or an instance with basically makes a copy or an instance of a single object.

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really baller video, thank you! I have been learning c4d lite and lusting after the studio version... and this video is what ive been looking for in understanding what i cant do (yet) while i learn lite!

secret_things
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Wow - thanks for the Cinema 4D Lite access-from-AE tip! Never knew that. And thanks of course for the version comparison!

rgarlinyc
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Great Job EJ!!!! I've been looking into the differences even though I own C4d Studio.

Also, congrats on the new position with S of M!!

jedezign
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Are there any blender/ae scripts/plugins that provide as seamless an experience as using c4dlite with ae?

blu_enjoy
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Thank you so much about your video. but Could you tell me (or maybe simply confirm) that C4D lite doesn’t have UV mapping capabilities? thanks

陳怡冰-eh
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7:50 we do indeed learn about lighting in 2D. It is one of the key elements to achieving depth and space. Not quite sure why you would think that...

ThoughtPumpkin
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How did you get the studio version into the lite version?

Styrbjorn_DK
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help. I press kk but the knife tool doesn't appear. I even right click surfaace mode but the tools list didn't come out? why eh? T_T ....

sufianmaroni
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Awesome! Thank you. Been getting more in to 3D work recently, and have been really struggling to understand how I can light/render and move the C4D scene within AE. Now I know!

marklangley
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Hello, do you happen to know how I can get the view to show the grid and x, y, z coordinates? The field is blank!Thank you for this!

leilgarner
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I just get a black screen in After Effects when I download your follow along file

officiallyazzam
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Can I force After Effects to use the Studio Version of Cinema 4D instead of the light version. I don't want to have 2 separated yet the same Cinema 4D Installed. Thank you

Saiiddesigns
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For the benefit of others, things have changed a lot! Still, Blender 2.9 is a much better solution even Element 3D v2.2.2 (old but still very relevant) is the better and cheap option. If you need to 3D model and want to use C4D (for some reason?) You can model in Blender save as FBX or OBJ and import it into C4D lite. I think C4D lite is just a sales gimmick to try and sell C4D not impressed.

pc-ninja
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What about export file from cinema lite version? I couldn’t

matvaalex
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Great Tips! Thanks. Do you have Tutorials only for the CD4 Lite Version? Do you have an Tutorial were you explain the use of the export null function?

BART-designbuero
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so you can use any external renderer with c4d studio in AE - why didn’t you show that in AE? That’s cool, the workflow should be better than element3d then?

robobar
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Dang! Your vid quality is da bomb. May I ask what kind of camera you're shooting with? (perhaps you're unuaslly handsome for this shoot...). Thx!

maxcosmo
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IS there a way to clean up the noise on renders in C4D Lite?

campbellmadesign
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Awesome friend. What a question. Lite support plugins? (I game developer)

myxz
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Mac with nVidia card? Is that a Hackintosh?

umran