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Exporting Title
Is there a way to export PPro titles with an alpha channel in order to import into a different system? These are small static legal size & luminance/chrome keying does not work well.
Thanks
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[Grant Lough] “import into a different system?”
If you mean another system with Premiere Pro…yes. Select the title in the Project window and choose File>Export>Title
That will respect the alpha channel.BUT
apparently you cant export an alpha channel frame off the timeline…even millions+ of colors and maximum bitdepth for Targa and Tiff images…the alpha channel is lost.Photoshop Rules!
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The easiest thing would be to make the title in something else, like Photoshop…
BUT…
If you really want to use the Premiere titler, you can do it like this (I’ll assume the test is white, but you can apply other colors as needed) in nine steps…
1) make the title
2) throw it on the timeline OVER BLACK and render out one frame of whatever type of still image you want, so that you have white type on a black background.
3) open the newly-made file in Photoshop
4) select ALL
5) Copy
6) In CHANNELS make a new channel
7) Paste what you copied onto the new channel (your new alpha channel)
8) SAVE IT as a Photoshop file, .tif, or .tga
9 enjoyT2
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I’ve not done it for some time, but I checked and this still works…
Put your title on an upper video track…2 or higher with NOTHING on video track 1. Position the CTL and export>Frame> choose TIF or Targa as you need the alpha channel, and select millions+ colors.
This will create a still document with an alpha channel.
TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
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[Tim Kolb] “This will create a still document with an alpha channel.”
Thats what I thought, but nooo it does not.
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Tim, The ‘millions+ colors’ was what I was missing, that’s great.
Thanks to all
Grant -
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[mike velte] “[Tim Kolb] “This will create a still document with an alpha channel.”
Thats what I thought, but nooo it does not.”
Mike, load it in Photoshop and look at the channels…there isn’t a tell-tale alpha transparent background, but it certainly does have an alpha channel for transparency. If you load it back into the project, it alpha keys as expected…
I went and actually did this before I posted to make sure I remembered correctly. I’m using version 2.o in case that’s an issue, but I know I’ve done this exact thing in Premiere 6.5 and PPro v1…
TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net -
I can export a .tiff with millions+ and Premiere honors the alpha channel, but in PS, even though the channels palette shows an alpha, anything I put beneath the layer is not seen. Info says the color of the black around the white text is black (0,0,0).
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If you import the TGA into Premiere Pro when you create it, you will see that when you place it over a colored matte that there is an alpha channel.
Steven
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[mike velte] “I can export a .tiff with millions+ and Premiere honors the alpha channel, but in PS, even though the channels palette shows an alpha, anything I put beneath the layer is not seen. Info says the color of the black around the white text is black (0,0,0).”
I have noticed this myself…since I usually do this to ultimately export to AE I don’t have an issue as AE interprets it correctly. In Photoshop, if you look only at the alpha channel, the gradients in shadows and that sort of thing are there…I suppose a Photoshop expert would understand how to get the alpha channel to behave properly.
TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net
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