Using Trapcode Soundkeys With Cinema 4D – AE Premium
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Using Trapcode Soundkeys With Cinema 4D – AE Premium

on Nov 15th 2011 with 6 comments
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Using audio in Cinema 4D to drive animations can be a powerful tool, but it can be difficult finding the same power of Trapcode Soundkeys. In this tutorial, we will look at a workflow to generate keyframes in After Effects using Trapcode Soundkeys and export them to Cinema 4D to drive the animation of text only using the core features found in the Prime version of Cinema 4D.

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  • http://designdevils.net Ivan Savkov

    LOL, very useful tutorial.

  • http://www.fremox.com fremox

    Hi ! Sound usefull but, in fact, if you use already Cinema 4D, why don’t you rather use its sound effector, which works perfectly for this kind of sound based animations (with, for instance, each letter parented to a fracture object)
    ?

    • http://www.cmimagery.com Kevin Snyder
      Author

      The sound effector in Cinema 4d can be very useful, but I find that Soundkeys provides me with more control…may just be a personal preference. The other advantage of Soundkeys is that it can be imported into any version of Cinema 4d. The sound effector requires Mograph.

  • http://www.blackbluebrown.com geoff brown

    very nice result. i’ve been looking for something like this.
    related thread can be found here – http://mograph.net/board/index.php?showtopic=20762

  • islamoNET

    Hi SiR Kevin !
    Thanks A lot for this tutorial…It’s useful
    But I don’t use C4D prog…I use 3Ds max
    Any suggestions ? or other tuts like this ?
    Thanks SiR Kevin.

    • http://www.cmimagery.com Kevin Snyder
      Author

      islamoNET,

      I’m sorry, but I don’t have any experience with 3Ds max. If you can export the nulls from AE using the same script I used (I’m not sure which formats 3Ds max can import), I think you could make the extruded letters in 3ds max a child of the AE nulls to get the same effect. I’m sorry that I couldn’t be more help. Good luck.

      Kevin