kevin0 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 how do you export a movie from am with just the object you built over an alpha background? thanks kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 how do you export a movie from am with just the object you built over an alpha background? thanks kev Kev, In the Render to File Settings you must: 1. Select advanced options 2. render it to a format that supports the alpha channel: a tga sequence or a quicktime movie 3. Under Buffers turn 'Alpha' to 'on' Cheers, Rusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin0 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 how do you export a movie from am with just the object you built over an alpha background? thanks kev that's what i've been doing but it still comes out with no alpha channel that fcp sees; just the ground and a black sky background.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 19, 2009 Hash Fellow Share Posted January 19, 2009 What are you rendering to? The only Quicktime codec that can hold an alpha channel is "Animation". The codec is set in the "compression " settings. (Avoid "Animation" for all other purposes, however. It makes huge files.) Targas can also hold an alpha channel. I don't use FCP, but I know After Effects can ignore an alpha channel if the import settings are not right/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin0 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 you are a genius; thank you! it needed to be on the animation codec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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