Flash Buffer Pro

Create

Flash Buffer will help you reduce the time to add a new Object Buffers significantly and you can avoid this routine process by a couple of mouse clicks! New passes are created in two modes. Separate mode — each selected object receives its own individual OB pass, Single group — the selected objects are placed into a single pass.

Apply pass

To assign an existing OB pass to the selected object, simply click Apply pass button, and choose a pass.

Delete

Removing passes is also organized very convenient. You can clear the scene with all the information about OB passes, or do it individually for the selected objects. It is possible to remove unnecessary Compositing tags if they are not used for other purposes.

Select

Sometimes you need to find an object by its OB pass quickly. In the Select tab you will find two buttons helping to select all objects with OB passes or pick up just one.

Rename

Excellent! Finally, we completed the scene rendering, but look, what is this? OB passes files have complicated names «… object_1_0000.jpg», «… object_3_0035.jpg», etc. It is time to apply the Flash Buffer Rename!

Rename function allows to sort sequence files in to separate subfolders. This processing not only OB passes files, but also the other passes from the specified directory. It should be noted that the Renamefunction works in a separate thread. This means that when processing large numbers of files, Cinema 4D won’t hang, waiting for the end command, and you can use the program further.

Path from names option indicate, that now all slashes («/» or «\») in the passes names is the dividers to create a new path. Organizing OB files becomes easier!

There’s a script for Adobe After Effects included to plug-in, that helps to import the sequence of files after the renaming . The main advantage of this method is supporting Unicode characters in file paths, witch is usually a problem when you import via * .aec file and all subdirectories structure built using the Path from names functions will also be reflected in After Effects project.