Blender export to After Effects?

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

This is a really noob question (should match up with my skill level) but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to export something from Blender to use as 3D in After Effects. Any help?

 

[kai]

Just render it out with an alpha channel.

AE can't use actual 3d models incase that's what you were trying to do.

 

[surf]

yes. render tiff, targa sequences, or uncompressed avi.

 

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

I dont want to export an animation sequence...I just want to export a 3D model...Not possible to use that in 3D form in AE I guess....Does that mean I would have to somehow model the model to move exactly right inside the 3D app, and then transfer it into AE and hope it matches up? Confusing...

 

[oneinfiniteloop]

That's pretty much what you do...or at least what I do.

 

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Is there a way to "pre-composite" the 3D model without having to export it a million times and fine tune it?

 

[Greggl]

You're probably going to want to work in the opposite direction.

Take your video footage into Blender. Use it as a background, image
sequence, image plane, ie whatever it is that they support as reference
footage.

 

[surf]

or you can even render only 1 frame in Blender, and composite it in AE

 

[waefre]

There is a way. I'm still researching it myself, but I know you can transfer camera data from one program to the other. Thus a 3d zoom can easily be made to match in after effects.