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Carrara installation- After Effects Plug In Goes Where? No Replies in Carrara Forum

NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I've waited 1 hour 20 minutes for an answer over in Carrara forums and have to get going on this. It's not a hard question! I'm not using DIM, I am manually installing, so can someone answer this? I wish there was a sticky that addresses the basics of installation. I don't really need a sticky referencing how to build my own computer station for a Carrara station, lol. Get me going here?

I have three choices in the C>Program Files>DAZ3D section- Carrara 8, Carrara Render Node 8, and Content Management Service. I am assuming I need to put the After Effects Plug-In in one of these? I’ve extracted the files but dont know where to put them. That’s question one. Number two is - when extracted, all I have is Docs folder, and something labeled CarraraImporter.aex. What is that and what do I do with it?

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,612
    edited August 2013

    I do not use the after effects plugin because I do not have after effects
    one and a half hours is not long, it is 10 am here in Australia do not know what it is there.
    most plugins go in program files Daz 3 D carrara 8 extensions
    directing it to the carrara 8 folder in progam files should do it.
    Render node is for using Carrara on a second or more computer in a render farm, not needed on your main computer.

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • Faeryl WomynFaeryl Womyn Posts: 3,663
    edited December 1969

    You can find the Carrara information
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15970/P105/#290982


    Carrara Plugins FAQ & Information (Currently Unfinished, Under Construction, & Being Edited Heavily - About 80% complete)

    This is a listing of makers of Carrara plugins, FAQ for certain plugins they make and some additional information to help with those plugins that isn’t found in another part of the Carrara Information Manual. Some FAQ do contain some information that can be found in other parts of the Carrara Information Manual, this was done so that jumping around to different parts of the Carrara Information Manual could be keep at a minimum Not all plugins have a specific FAQ or extra information given for them.

    General Plugin And Related Things to Remember

    1.) If you are using Windows Vista, 7, or 8. Make sure you are logged in as an Admin and that you run Carrara as an Admin when you go to enter in your serial for the plugin.

    2.) Many of the sites that have online tutorials for Carrara plugins have links in them to files that are imbedded in text. in the tutorial tat can be easily missed and may have some larger versions of images if you click on. Not all images may be larger sized ones and you could see om the same website several tutorials with no larger image links, some that contain images with no links to larger images and other images with links to larger version, and some that have larger image links for all images.

    This is useful to remember if you want to if your going to download tutorials and want to have every thing the site it was on had.

    3.) Plugins files are installed to your Extensions folder located in your Carrara program (application) folder. Read Me files, plugin specific shaders, scenes, etc. you’ll put in the appropriate folder that similar things go into. Shaders go in Shaders, Scenes go in Scenes, etc.

    4.) You need to put a copy of the Extensions files for a plugin in the Extensions folder in each render node program (application) folder you have in your render farm. Some plugins have special versions of the Extensions you use for a render node, while others don’t.

    Q: Does Infinite Skills Inc. products cover using any of these.

    A: Yes, some are covered in those videos.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    edited December 1969

    You are so very helpful, thank you. Also got a reply on the other thread as to exactly where to put it. Appreciate you very much. :)

  • Jay_NOLAJay_NOLA Posts: 1,145
    edited August 2013

    The FAQ that was mentioned does have a section covering the After Effects plugin.

    It is installed differently than you would the majority of plugins for Carrara, since you need to install it in After Effects.

    I've cut and pasted the info in case you missed it.

    FAQ About Carrara Importer for Adobe After Effects


    Q: I can’t find the PC .exe file to install it.

    A: It doesn’t have a .exe installer. It is a manually installed. See the Read Me in the .zip file on how to install and use it. Do be aware that the PC .and Mac each have a separate zip with a version for them.


    Q: Do any tutorials exist on how to use it?

    A: The The Carrara 5 Pro Handbook, by Mike de la Flour has a chapter written by David Bell and Lisa Yimm on using it with After Effect 6.5.

    I will quickly add this cut and past of the info that is in the Read Me case the Read Me got removed. It is in the Docs folder. The Docs folder goes in your Carrara 8 program folder.

    Installation Instructions

    Macintosh®

    Find the installation folder for After Effects (typically found in "MacHD:Applications:Adobe After Effects 6.5"). Then open the "Plug-ins:Standard" folder and copy the CarraraImporter file there.

    Windows®

    Find the installation folder for After Effects (typically found in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\After Effects"). Then open the "Plug-ins:Standard" folder and copy the CarraraImporter file there.

    How to use

    In Carrara, open a file, choose File> Save As and select After Effects. The created file contains the animation of the position of the cameras, lights and planes of the scene. Finally, import the saved file (.cae) in After Effects.


    Hope that help if the Read Me was removed just send me a PM and I'll add the instillation instructions to the plugin FAQ section in the manual. (I still need to do the info for he Grid and I want to updated the YATOON info.)

    The book I mentioned in the FAQ is worth getting if your learning Carrara everything in it applies to 8 & 8.5.,even though it was written for 5. It also has a Hexagon modeling tutorial in it and it shows you how to integrate Hexagon into a Carrara workflow.

    Post edited by Jay_NOLA on
  • rbaclerbacle Posts: 6

    Again, great info, but I still don't see anything about how to install the plugins in Carra 8.5 Pro.
    This is disconcerting to me that no one seems to have any info on how this basic thing is done.
    Please help me to do this, as I only have the zip files & when I unzip them I have a .dsx file & some folders.
    How in the world do I install these?
    Thanks.

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