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How to Change Your Default Option Settings in Cinema 4D 61 Comments

In this short tutorial, I show you how to change your default option settings in cinema 4D. This is really helpful options that you change every time like screen aspect ratio, render size, or anti aliasing settings.

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    • RendThemAll

      Cool video.music,animation-everything is awesome

      Reply

  4. Folklore

    Hey Nick,

    Speaking of layouts, can you upload the layout you use for r12. Like you did for r11.5 in the GSG light kit.

    Or is it already somewhere?

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  5. Bran

    Great little trick :)

    I’ve managed to trick it in code..
    but this is much quicker and easier!

    Thanks… and Happy NY. Here;s 8.30pm ATM

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  7. Christopher Scott Kn

    I’ve been using this for a couple off weeks now… Didn’t I hear it from you, Nick? hmmm

    I was also trying to bring up the ‘secret menu’ thing in AE during yesterday’s live stream.

    If you hold down the shift key while selecting Preference in AE, you get this ‘secret’ tab added to the list.

    Change the cache to ’2′ and it speeds up your render time over 100% (in my case)
    I rendered a 60 layer, 4 minute project the other day that would have taken 1hr and 35 minutes but took 16 minutes after I initiated this simple change.

    I also found that having the caps lock on during the rendering sped things up even more because it wasn’t wasting processor power displaying the view.

    Maybe I can get one of my clients to agree to add a new 12 core to our next contract. That’d be super nice.

    Happy New Year to you, Nick (and all the GSG’ers)
    Let’s all have a very profitable and fun 2011.

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  11. Lewis Duval

    Nick, I have to say this again man…I LOVE the Light Kit. It makes the renders that much sexier. Thanks and keep kicking ass bro!

    Reply

  16. S3B

    happy new year Nick and thx again for this new little but useful tut !

    S3B

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  17. Goofy

    This is great.
    It works when You ad object change “select only visible” in live selection tool, delete object and save as new.c4d
    To change that default was my wish for long time.
    Happy new.c4d year to all of You

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  18. MdW

    Happy new year, Nick. Keep the quality vids and positive attitude flowing!

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    • Guido A

      jajaja Man usted es tico???

      Esa palabra “Volados” suena mucho por acá!!!

      Reply

  20. bird

    It works great with hud settings too. I use it to add a axis scale to the hud in all the views.

    Thanks

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  21. Matt

    I don’t know where to find this answer so maybe one of you guys know… How do you figure out the size of a selection or face once it is already converted. Example: make a cube 100cm then covert it by pressing c. now if i want to know the dimensions of of the cube. Any Ideas? thanks!

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  22. anon

    Hey Nick,

    Thanks for the awesome site. I have a question on how to change the default key command for setting a keyframe for animations.

    Right now default is (I’m using Mac) both command+mouse click and control+mouse click to set a keyframe when hovering over the keyframe circles.

    I want to be able to just simply mouse click the circle to set a keyframe.

    Funnily enough when in Command Manager and using Shortcut filter pressing either control or command to search; results in nothing so figuring out how to fix this has been a challenge.

    I actually wrote to MAXON asking for help in R11.5 in how to do this with no reply :( If you do not know how to do this, would you please request that Maxon change this to default for the next revision please?

    Making the default just mouse click to set keyframes would be better and more After Effects like.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thank you

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  23. Thomas

    Thank you forall your work and great tuorials!!
    One other question … What kind of microphone you use for your videos ?

    Happy new year !

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  26. AKEman

    This feature is also a life savior in Europe since we use PAL which has 25 frames per second. The default fps is 30 so it’s nice to fix this one both from the scene settings and from the render settings.

    Oh.. and have a nice year 2011!!

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    • DavyMenge

      Yes I did that too!

      It’s also possible to save several render settings in one file. For example for testing and final renders. (It’s in the bottom left part of the output settings screen)

      Also you can save anything you want just like a normal scene file, like default shaders or light setups you always use.

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  27. polyGone

    Happy New Year Bro! you have been most helpful in 2010 .. i just came back from a heavy dose of chilling.. in between some Lsd .. i was compositing background almost every thought i had.. no antialiasing issues :) .. so have been an integral part of my 2010.. i have improved my design work.. and have recieved a lot of positive feedback all thanks to you..

    your determination.. energy.. and desire to keep learning and sharing.. is like.. good.

    dont stop the rock.. god bless.. 2011 will see you higher :)

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  28. Fred Aubailly

    Happy new year Nick and a big thanks for what you do. You really make our simple C4D users life easier !
    Keep up the good work !

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  29. Matthew Houston

    Thanks for this post. This will definitely same some frustration.

    Happy New Year!

    I made a video based on your candycane tutorial, but since I’m a new subscriber, I accidentally posted it as a comment to your Vimeo page rather than to your blog. Rookie mistake. Anyway, the link is below.

    http://vimeo.com/18337420

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    • Matthew Houston

      In my video, I discovered that I didn’t know how to create an object buffer for particles created by an emitter. Should I just put a compositing tag on the emitter itself?

      I ended up trying to fake a mask in After Effects – to mediocre results.

      Reply

  30. Nick Falangas

    Hey Nick Campbell,

    Regarding the purchase of Cinema 4d and following along with your tutorials,

    is Cinema 4d Prime fine okay?

    I am using blender now, and I dont have 2,600.00 to spend and i dont know if Cinema Broadcast edition is even worth it?

    Really would appreciate your input, thanks -your fan -Nick

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  33. WaveF

    Hi Nick, I am from china and I know there’re many people live in china like your tutorials very much, but unfortunately vimeo now is in the chinese government BAN LIST, so… Can you take some time to upload your video to youtube? I can still visit youtube via some tools, hope it can be done…

    Reply
    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      Sorry, Most of my videos are longer than the youtube 15 minute limit. I’m thinking of finding another way to get tutorials to people who can’t watch them easily. Maybe a USB drive?

      Reply

  35. ssd

    thanks again for the great tutorials Nick

    here’s a question I had, open to anyone: I have a new computer with lots of processing speed/ram, but it seems to take quite a while to render basic things (like the text stripe fillet tutorial). I’m not using a ton of lights or anything complex like GI. Are there any ways I can manually set up C4D to make sure its taking advantage of all my computer power? Haven’t found any great answers online. Running a demo of C4D R12.

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  36. ssd

    weird! maybe its some of these lights then. or maybe my perception is distorted by your awesomely fast render times.
    thanks for the reply Nick!!!!

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  37. Cabbe

    I somehow messed up and now whenever i open cinema it loads a scene with a floor and some lights.

    I then tried to make a new empty “new.c4d” file and overwrite the messed up file.

    But cinema still loads the scene with the floor and lights.

    i also tried to delete the “new.c4d” file and make a new file from scratch. But somehow cinema STILL loads the file that has been deleted and removed from the Trash bin. Weird!

    anyone know how i fix this?

    Does Cinema store some data about the default project some other place???

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  38. kuunami

    Thanks so much!!! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out how people always had their units set to Meters by default.

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  39. DarkFX

    It says I dont have permission to save in that folder and that I need to contact the administrator. Is there a solution to this?

    BTW: I’m using Windows Vista

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  41. bobo

    i am having problems getting this to work in r13, anyone else or just me?

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  42. Smith

    Jesus, and how to change the default font use by C4D, e.g, when using the spline text or the MoText object, the default font don’t please me…

    Reply

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