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Transparent Background
Hello,
My question may be very elementary in nature to you, but I’ve tried different settings until I’m blue in the face. Please help me return to normal.
After animating some text, I exported it as a QT movie (DV NTSC Movie). I imported it into FCP6 over my main video track, and the background is not transparent.
How do I export from Motion to FCP making the background transparent?
Note: Project properties / general tab / background is set to transparent
Thank you for your time.
Sam
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15 Replies
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The DV codec does not support transparency. Instead of exporting a movie, just import the Motion project file ITSELF into FCP and place it over your clip.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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Mark,
Thanks for your quick response. I saved the Motion file and imported it directly into FCP, background still black.
Perhaps I did something wrong. The Motion project file I imported has the extension, ‘.motn. My background settings are still set to transparency.
Is there something or a setting I should recheck?
Thanks,
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That should work. Does your Motion project actually have transparency? You can check by using the Channels menu to switch to Alpha.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
The Channel menu had ‘Transparent’ selected on my last save. I switched it to ‘Alpha’ and saved as a new file, still black.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thk
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Post your project file, I’ll take a peek at it.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Thanks Mark for the extra efforts offered. I’m certain you have better things to do with your time. This was my first posting, so I hope I did it correctly.
Sam
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Did you upload the file? I don’t see anything. You need to click the little floppy disc icon…
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
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Project looks fine – so you place this project file over a video clip in your FCP sequence and you cannot see the video behind it? I don’t see how that’s possible…can you send a screenshot?
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Mark,
I’m bewildered…
When I started this help needed thread, the words in my project were not transparent. I tried many different setting before starting this thread. I also changing the Channel menu settings to ‘Alpha’ as you suggested, and it still had a black background.
After sending you the file for analysis, I closed Motion3 and FCP6. When I relaunched FCP6 and imported the assets to make the requested screen shot, the file is NOW working. The Motion file background is transparent. I don’t know what to tell you, other then thank you for your efforts and your patience. Perhaps FCP’s timeline had a glitch, I just don’t know…
I apologize if I wasted your time. Thank you once again!
Sam
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