• Adobe After Effects

  flash to quicktime to after effects transparent background problem

  Posted by Pokedesign on March 12, 2006 at 9:56 am

  Hi I’m stuck on trying to get a transparent background to my flash animation to use in after effects.
  I’m exporting as a quick time movie, and I’ve tried all types of settings but cant work out how to get the transparent background.
  Is there something I have to do with the mov file in after effects?
  All the searches I can find seam to mention using certain quick time settings like animation but my movies still have a solid backgrounds.

  I have been stuck on this for 4 hours now and am gretting really frustrated
  Any help would be great or I will be bald by tonight

  cheers

  Pokedesign replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stevegalaxy

  March 13, 2006 at 4:35 pm

  Hello,

  i’ve been having the same trouble, spent a couple of days last week trying to figure out what i was doing wrong… but couldn’t find any help.. i think flash is the problem as the quicktimes it exports seem to be .swf files re-named, hence the small size, so AE doesn’t understand them correctly (there isn’t anything you need to do to the quicktime once in AE, the alpha should show up, if its there). I did try exporting the flash quicktime again from premiere using the Animation millions of colurs+ compression.. but still no alpha.

  I gave up with it and am just using .png sequences instead, its slower to export these from flash but at least it works.

  Sorry i can’t help.. but then starting to think its not possible, be interested to hear if you figure it out.

  steve.
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  Pokedesign

  March 14, 2006 at 9:57 am

  I ended up useing png sequences as well.
  I would have done this from the off if I’d realised you can import as a sequence, firt time i tried I had to arrange all the png’s individualy in the time line.
  duh

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