• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting from FCP with alpha channel

  Posted by Lindsay on October 31, 2005 at 10:07 pm

  For keying purposes I have been trying to export clips from FCP to quick time with an Alpha channel. I have been using quick time conversion with the animation and millions of colors + settings, and frame rate 29.97. Once I export and bring the file back into FCP it doesn’t key. What am I doing wrong!? It’s probably something simple. Please can anyone help me?

  Bret Williams replied 20 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike J.

  October 31, 2005 at 11:12 pm

  I don’t think you’ve actually created an alpha channel in FCP. Did you key out, luma out, mask out the elements that will become the keyed out portions before exporting as ANIMATION + alpha

  If you’re sure there’s an alpha….next, try going to the FCP selection, MODIFY/ALPHA/ STRAIGHT

  Mike
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  Kevin Monahan

  November 1, 2005 at 1:21 am

  Unrender the existing render file before exporting. Just toggle clip visibility: CNTRL + B. Then export the same way.

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  Bret Williams

  November 1, 2005 at 4:04 am

  Don’t you have to put your clip on V2, and turn off V1 so that FCP doesn’t comp in black?

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