File Exchange

"Man is not an island" and neither is MAXON's CINEMA 4D. Because real-world 3D artists do not work in a vacuum, CINEMA 4D includes support for a host of industry-standard file formats.

CINEMA 4D renders passes in any desired format (image sequences, AVIs or QuickTime movies) and creates a compositing project file that automatically brings all sequences together in the correct format. Depending on the compositing application used, additional data such as 3D cameras, 3D lights or reference objects will be exported as well.

3D Formats

  • 3D Studio .3ds (R/W)
  • Biovision .bvh (R)
  • Collada .dae (R/W)
  • DEM (R)
  • DXF (R/W)
  • DWG (R)
  • Direct 3D .x (W)
  • FBX (R/W)
  • IGES (R)
  • LightWave 3D .lws .lwo (R)
  • RIB (W)
  • STL (R/W)
  • VRML2 .wrl (R/W)
  • Wavefront .obj (R/W)

Compositing Formats (Write only)

  • After Effects (3D)
  • Final Cut (2D, Mac only)
  • Combustion (3D)
  • Shake (2D)
  • Motion (3D, Mac only)
  • Fusion (2D, Windows only)

2D Image and Animation Formats (R/W)

  • TIFF
  • BodyPaint 3D
  • Photoshop PSD
  • Targa TGA
  • HDRI
  • DPX
  • Open EXR
  • BMP
  • PICT
  • IFF
  • JPEG
  • RLA
  • RPF
  • PNG
  • QuickTime (if available)
  • AVI (Windows only)

2D Vector Formats

  • Illustrator (R/W)
  • EPS (R)

R = read / W = write