• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Export with Alpha

  Posted by Zak Mussig on July 21, 2006 at 2:57 pm

  I feel like there has to be some codec in FCP that’ll let me export to quicktime and keep an alpha channel. Am I just not seeing the check box, does it do it automatically with codecs that support it, or am I just SOL?

  Thanks,
  Zak

  David Bogie replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Bogie

  July 21, 2006 at 3:28 pm

  It’s a very weird issue.
  If the clip has been rendered in your timeline, when you export, you just export the rendered media. If you’re working in DV, there is no alpha support so, even if you set the output for millions-plus, there is no alpha information.
  You can export your effects to the Animation codec with alpha as long as it is not rendered. Animation is the only readily available and widely accepted codec that supports an alpha. (Umm, I think there is at least one other, dunno, never used it.)

  I think Tom Wolsky and Jerry Hofmann came up with other ways of doing this but this is simple and it always works so I have never bothered to learn another way of doing it.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Zak Mussig

  July 21, 2006 at 8:07 pm

  bogie,
  Thanks for the reply. I was using Animation, but the exporting non-rendered vs rendered thing makes a lot of sense. I hadn’t even thought about it.

  Thanks again
  Zak
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  David Bogie

  July 24, 2006 at 2:39 pm

  Any time, Zak. Thanks for c losing the thread on a positive note.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

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