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[Nikeman]

Hi all, Have never done any 3D work before, just got Lightwave 9.2 and had a question. I was expecting it to be easy to export the lightwave scene and feed it in Adobe Premier Pro or Adobe After Effects.

I loaded the Adobe After Effects plug-ins from the NewTek site but it doesn't work. Can not seem to figure out how to save/export from Lightwave in a format After Effect can import.

Thanks

[G M D THREE]

... ahhh OK, there is a thing called "rendering" should be in the manual.

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[ednachman]

After you RENDER!!! While in Premiere Pro, "Import" the rendered file and in the menu there is a box to check that will find the first frame and continue to the end.

[Nikeman]

Rendering into an AVI file has been the only way I can get Premier Pro to pull in the Lightwave animation. I would have thought, with the plug-in, at least After Effects could inport the work.

[iconoclasty]

Premier and AE should be fully capable of importing lots rendered from LightWave. avi, mov, mpg, jpeg sequence, png seqence, etc.

[archijam]

If you want a simple, cheap, animation-from-jpeg program, I would just get Quicktime Pro for 50 bucks. Other users will TOTally disagree, I am sure there are free alternatives, but I think it is also easy for a beginner to get into (within 15 minutes).

j.

[iconoclasty]

TOTally disagree. yes.
VirtualDub is free and works pretty damn well.

[RudySchneider]

TOTally disagree. yes.
VirtualDub is free and works pretty damn well.

Ditto...