Discussion from Cineversity V1:
In this segment, regarding the use of separate light multipass renders versus Diffuse, Specular and Shadow multipass renders, I presume C4D scenes with a lot of lights = a lot more rendered movies with the advantage of additional compositing options in AE and shadow correction in C4D. Is there a rule of thumb that you use when deciding when to render separate lights movies versus Diffuse, Specular and Shadow movies?
Answer from instructor:
Yes, the combination of lots of lights plus separate Diffuse, Specular, and Shadow passes for each light equals lots of movies. Fortunately, the way that these are grouped into precomps for each light makes them a bit easier to handle. I don’t have a real rule of thumb except to do all the passes most of the time for maximum flexibility, unless I am in a hurry or the project is particularly straightforward.