5 Time-Saving Cinema 4D Tips EVERY User Should Know!

In this video, I’ll give you 5 simple but powerful tips to speed up your Cinema 4D workflow and save you valuable time on your projects. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, these tricks will help you work faster, smarter, and more efficiently.

1. Use your right, left, up, and down arrows to move or rotate your objects in 5 cm increments. Perfect for quickly nudging objects around your scene.
2. Use the Object as Cameras feature to quickly set up your 3-point lighting or position objects easily in your scene. This is a perfect tip for lining up your spotlights perfectly.
3. Quickly Duplicate and Offset your objects by simply holding Ctrl and dragging. Will save a lot of time when trying to populate your scene.
4. Reset PSR. I’ll show you a few ways to quickly reset an object to the world center or to another object’s position/rotation/scale. You can use Reset Transform or use the shortcut Alt+0. Also, a quick tip showing how to quickly reset any parameter in Cinema 4D to its default settings by simply right-clicking on the little left and right arrows on any parameter.
5. A reminder that you can switch between all of your 5 camera views with shortcuts F1-F5. If you make this part of your workflow it will save you SO much time.