• Adobe After Effects

  Exporting w/ alpha channel in after effects

  Posted by Londonalleyent on August 30, 2007 at 12:45 am

  Im trying to export a logo I made in after effects 7 while keeping the alpha channel.
  As far as I know the only way to do this is with the Animation codec…. but this codec behaves very wierd when watched on a tv or when inported into Final Cut Pro.
  Are there any other ways to do this???

  thanks
  Luga

  Richard Harrington replied 18 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Duff

  August 30, 2007 at 1:26 am

  I always use Animation codec when rendering out with an alpha… and never have any problems with using it in FCP (or DVD authoring etc)… maybe because animation is still a very large file your hard drives can’t read it fast enough?

  or you could try rendering out uncompressed … i can’t think of other codecs that support alphas at the moment, but I’m sure if you google/wiki it you find a few
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  Richard Harrington

  August 30, 2007 at 11:11 am

  Add it to your FCP timeline and render… then it will play fine….

  Make sure your timeline settings match your intended output (DV, 8 bit etc)

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

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