-
alpha for final cut pro
i am very familiar with after effects and multiple editing softwares, unfortunately my new job is using final cut pro which i havent explore thoroughly…i edit promo and involve graphics
i cant seem to find any alpha setting for graphics rendered in After effects (*.mov) for fcp and fcp cant import image sequences as far as i know…im still new with fcp.
so please help me to import ae rendered files (*.mov or image seq) with alpha channel
-
3 Replies
-
The way I have found to do this is to set your render to animation and change the depth in the Output Module Settings to ‘Millions of Colors+’. Unfortunately this will require you to rerender the movie once it’s in FCP, but I don’t know of any other solution.
-
That’s the standard way. There is no native YUV codec that won’t need rendering in FCP that I know of that supports an alpha channel. So you use an RGB codec like Animation, PNG, TIFF, IFF, etc , etc that supports an alpha channel. Then like was stated set the colors to millions+. The ‘+’ means with an alpha channel.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com -
…also, FCP does support image sequences in a way but it’s rather cumbersome working with them. First, in the user prefs, under the “editing” tab you have to set the length of imported stills. For some strange reason I have to set this value to 2 in order to import the stills as 1 frame long! (might be a bug?). You can then import the images into a seperate bin and then just drag the bin to your timeline as you would a clip.
I find it easier to either use animation codec directly from AE or convert any image sequences to animation first using Quicktime pro (or AE)
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up