• Adobe After Effects

  keyed comps are rendering with background color

  Posted by Jason Schiedel on August 9, 2005 at 7:28 pm

  Hi everyone-
  This problem must happen all the time but I didn’t see it described in the posts. I am keying footage in AE 6.5 using keylight. I want to render the keyed character as a separate movie and bring it into another comp, but when I finish rendering, all my movies have either the background color included, or I still see the bluescreen, only with all the color drained from it (it’s black). I know I must be setting something wrong in the output module, only I’m not sure what. What do I need to do to render out the keyed footage with a transparent background?

  Thanks,
  J

  Jason Schiedel replied 20 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  August 9, 2005 at 7:37 pm

  Use the Render Queue to render to a codec that supports an alpha channel, and render to millions+ colors, RGB+alpha.

  We generally recommend Quicktime’s Animation codec at 100% quality.

  Steve
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  Jason Schiedel

  August 10, 2005 at 12:21 pm

  Thankyou so much. I repeated the render over and over again while missing “A milliion colors +”. I knew it had to be something so simple and obvious!

  Best,
  Jason

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