# Cineware with Adobe After Effects

## What can it do?

Cinema 4D provides several interfaces and features for working with Adobe After Effects:

- The file paths to the render settings created in Cinema 4D can be saved in an After Effects compressed file (.aec). This, for example, automates the loading of multi-passes into an After Effects composition. In addition, 3D files for object position, color surfaces, light sources and cameras can be passed to After Effects.
- Cineware technology extends After Effects in such a way that a native Cinema 4D file can be created, loaded and rendered there. In many cases, this can considerably simplify the editing of compositions, as manipulations of 3D cameras, for example, can be carried out directly in After Effects.
- Simulations, such as rigid bodies, can be calculated directly in After Effects as a cache in order to be able to navigate in time as required and always obtain the correct result.
- Cineware also enables the use of Cinema 4D user data in After Effects. Selected settings, such as the text used in an Extrude generator, can be edited directly in After Effects without having to switch between programs.
- The Cinema 4D Asset Browser is offered within After Effects, with which 3D elements, for example, can be selected and integrated directly into projects.

The following topics will be covered:

- Working with Composition Files
- Cinema 4D files in Adobe After Effects
- The Cineware Effects Settings
- Create and use User Data