Beginning C4D 101: Video Textures

Posted by Joren in: Cinema 4D
Beginning C4D 101: Video Textures

In the first Beginning C4D 101 quick tip series, I’ll show you how to bring video into Cinema 4D to use as a texture.

Hint: if you don’t know how many frames your image sequence has, right click on the folder containing them, get info, and it will tell you how many images are in that folder which will be the amount of frames.

6 Sep 2011

15 Comments for "Beginning C4D 101: Video Textures"

  1. Lu

    September 6th, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    Hey, Joren…

    THANK YOU for starting the series :) )!!
    Very helpful.

  2. Scott

    September 6th, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    Thanks Joren!

  3. Rolando Arroyo

    September 7th, 2011 at 2:30 am

    Thanks again joren

  4. Tommy

    September 7th, 2011 at 5:22 am

    Thanks mate. Great tip. Keep them coming

  5. Craig

    September 7th, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Thanks Joren. Very useful

  6. Matt

    September 7th, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Nice one, Joren! :)

  7. jhelias

    September 7th, 2011 at 7:18 pm

    Really nice !!!
    Please keep on doing this…

    just orderd Industrial pack few days ago, i recommend… it helps !

  8. rovino

    September 9th, 2011 at 6:40 am

    Thanks for the learning.. Just curious.. why cubic for the mapping? wouldn’t Flat worked just as well without having to deal with the tiling? Also just another note I recently learned. you could use either color channel or Luminance.

    color- allows your video to be affected by the lights in your scene.

    luminance- shows the video as it is natively and is not affected by lights in your scene.

  9. Joren

    September 9th, 2011 at 12:10 pm

    Hey Rovino, not sure about flat actually. Take a plane, put an image on it, and go to flat. It gets kind of crazy! Let me know if that works for you or not, but cubic seems to work perfect for me…
    As for channels, yes you could put it in the luminance as well, and then the image would “emit” light which is pretty cool! All depends on the look you’re going for. Thanks mate!

  10. Marc

    September 14th, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Thanks I’ve recently had a few problems texturing and this has very quickly cleared up a few important questions I had.

    Thanks

  11. m

    October 4th, 2011 at 3:53 am

    Thank you. Concise and helpful. Thank you!

  12. VinhSon

    October 23rd, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    Wonderful tutotial! I was wondering how you could do this vise versa: attach a composotion to your 3D render in After Effects from Cinema 4D (similar to an iPhone model etc)

    Thanks!

  13. Gokhan

    December 1st, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    please fix the video link,I can’t see anaything..I think link is broken :(

    Thank you very much.

  14. Joren

    December 1st, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    It works for me Gokhan, maybe refresh or try a different browser?

  15. Gokhan

    December 2nd, 2011 at 7:14 am

    OK Dear Joren,I fixed the problem,my browser problem,
    Thak you very much for reply ;)

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