The Pixel Lab’s Joren Kandel offers a quick tip showing how to create rows of LED lights in C4D easily. There are probably a few ways to approach this including as Joren mentions, using Mograph to clone objects to the appropriate places.
[pullquote]a way to create quick LED lights in C4D[/pullquote]Certainly that has some drawbacks in terms of the resources needed. Perhaps the lights will be farther from the camera than would warrant a cloner setup. Here Joren shows how you can use the luminance channel to easily set up LED lights in C4D.
Using a multiples render, you can easily modify the LED lights in After Effects giving you flexibility for the final look.