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8.2 Alpha channel
I have a ProResHQ FCP7 sequence with ProResHQ media except for some FX material that is in animation codec with alpha channels. Should I bake these animation codec clips as ProResHQ and then somehow extract a matte from them to import into a node in DAVINCI? Will this then work in a round trip?
I’m a little confused as to how to get this to work…..
S
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Also Davinci seems to refuse to see the animation codec QTs at all – I look in the folders where they should be through the DAVINCI browse page and these clips do not appear, although they are in the OSX finder….
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So, a couple of things.
First of all, if you go looking at the https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/2588311/davinci_resolve_8.2_supported_codec_list.pdf
you won’t find the Animation codec. It won’t appear on a lot of lists.
Its a bit long in the tooth as a “lossless” codec, its only adavantage now being that it is one of the few that can carry an alpha channel, but then there’s ProRes 444.
Resolve 9 can use alpha channels for matte purposes, but not 8.2. You will have to extract the alpha channel somehow and export that (exact length of the original clip) as a recognized codec and attach it to the source clip as an external matte. You cannot export an alpha out of Resolve.
jPo
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Ok thanks JPO – what would your process with FCP be to ‘extract’ the alpha?
S
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Please just upgrade, you will love it and need to learn a cumbersome workaround .
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For a luma matte, you can load your clips in the viewer, change your view from RGB to ALPHA. You should see a B+W of what your alpha should be… and export.
I’m sure there are other ways. That’s the way I know of.
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