Urgent Help Needed....Alpha channel issue
by Chris Miller (5cou53r)
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Jan 15, 2008 at 11:07:43 pm
First of all I need to apologise because I know this will probably be posted countless time but I have an important deadline tomorrow and am too stressed.
I have created a animated graphic in After Effects which I want to import into Avid xpress and drop over the footage. Each time I render and import it places a black background behind the graphic.
I need step by step instructions on how to set this graphic to export with a tranparent background into another program
Re: Urgent Help Needed....Alpha channel issue by Alejandro Torres on Jan 16, 2008 at 12:13:33 am
Hi!
What I usually do is export a jpg sequence with alpha channel activated, it will give you two sequences the original one and the alpha channel one, I don't use Avid but I am almost sure it can manage jpg sequences as video as well as permitting you to use the alpha channel sequence to be used as a matte, I don't use Avid but you could try this way.
Re: Urgent Help Needed....Alpha channel issue by Dave LaRonde on Jan 16, 2008 at 12:40:19 am
[Chris Miller]"Yer I did I tried it with 'straight' output mode"
What codec did you use? Just because you set it to straight and millions of colors+ doesn't always mean you're set.... especially if the codec doesn't support alpha channels.
Re: Urgent Help Needed....Alpha channel issue by david bogie on Jan 16, 2008 at 8:29:20 pm
Yes to most of the above but give yourself some slack. The section in the AE manual on alphas is long and confusing. I imagine the one in the Avid manual is, too. Read them carefully. Probably twice.
bogiesan
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