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From what I can tell,
Cinema 4d Lite will not have a render function of its own.. You'll need
AE to do anything with it. That said, Cineware, the plugin that makes the magic happen, looks like it only has 3 options for render... Software, Final Draft Low Quality, and Final Draft HQ. It looks like it basically spawns a C4D headless render process in the background and pushes frames when needed.. I don't know the extent of "previewing" while moving around in the viewport.. I would hope they could use the C4D engine for 3d viewports as well, but I'm thinking that would just be a pipe-dream (i.e. in AE things move slow if you have a complicated scene, whereas in C4d it would be manageable.. As far as using the graphics card to render the scene.. you wouldn't want that with the C4D engine.. it would look like a video game, vs. a clean detailed render.. Hardware render in Cinema 4d is basically just a real-time viewport render.. however fast it can draw your viewport, it'll save that frame and move forward.. it's nice for quick "ram previews" in C4d, but nothing I'd want to use for render's sake.. the standard C4D render engine can handle very nice quality scenes at a much faster rate using the CPU than AE seems to handle raytraced scenes using approved Nvidia Hardware cards.. just depends on your CPU (and not brand proprietary as far as I know.)
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