Multi-Pass Rendering

Use MAXON CINEMA 4D's Multi-Pass rendering to gain the ultimate control over your renders. Easily render color, shadow, reflection and other effects to individual files for tweaking using your favorite compositing application. Multiple object-based alpha channels make it easy to layer elements with other 2D and 3D assets. With direct export to Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe After Effects®, Final Cut Pro®, Combustion® and Shake® your multipass layers will be ready to composite in no time.

Supported Compositing Software

CINEMA 4D renders the 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 object, will be exported as well.

The following compositing applications are currently supported by CINEMA 4D

• Adobe After Effects* (V5.0 and higher)
• Apple Final Cut Pro (V4.5 and higher)
• Apple Motion (V1.0 and higher)
• Apple Shake (V3.5 and higher)
• Autodesk Combustion* (V3.0 and higher)
• eyeon Fusion (V5.0 and higher)