About exporting Transparency AE – Importing Trans Vegas

[Walter Soyka]

The AE render queue looks good. Are you sure there’s nothing opaque in your comp’s background? If you click the Toggle Transparency Grid button in your comp’s viewer, do you see a checkered background?

I’m not a Vegas user, so I can’t help there — but I would also try searching the docs for “alpha channel” rather than just “transparency.”

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[Cory Petkovsek]

After importing the footage in vegas, rightclick the event and hit properties. Tell vegas the footage has a premultiplied alpha channel. Also make sure within the quicktime/animation properties that the millions of colors+ is set there as well.

This is a vegas question, rather than an AE question.

Incedentially, I usually use straight matte instead of premultiplied so it has a cleaner alpha channel. Vegas will do either.

Cory

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[Harry Putnam]

[Walter Soyka] ” Re: About exporting Transparency AE – Importing Trans Vegas
by Walter Soyka on Jan 24, 2011 at 8:12:08 pm

The AE render queue looks good. Are you sure there’s nothing opaque in your comp’s background? If you click the Toggle Transparency Grid button in your comp’s viewer, do you see a checkered background?”

Thanks for the input and confirmation. Also for the useful search tip.

Yes it has the checker background. And I see Cory has put his finger right on the mystery for me. Turns out to be easily solved in Vegas with a simple change in `properties’

[Cory Petkovsek] “by Cory Petkovsek on Jan 24, 2011 at 8:20:05 pm

After importing the footage in vegas, rightclick the event and hit properties. Tell vegas the footage has a premultiplied alpha channel. Also make sure within the quicktime/animation properties that the millions of colors+ is set there as well.

This is a vegas question, rather than an AE question.

Incedentially, I usually use straight matte instead of premultiplied so it has a cleaner alpha channel. Vegas will do either.”

Thank for the input. Solved the mystery in one go. Had I searched on Alpha channel as Walter suggested, or maybe just Alpha… I probably would have found that switch in the properties dialog.

I agree, its the wrong forum for the question but didn’t realize it going in.

Thanks for the tip about using straight matt in AE for export. I would have no doubt been a good long time finding that out on my own.

Thanks again to you both.

[Harry Putnam]

[Walter Soyka] “Posts Index Read Thread

This post should move to AE Basics Forum

The bit above appeared in an usual position not usually associated with a response.

It came after the line one sees following a response:
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So I’m not sure if it was Cory’s comment or what but may I ask if a question regarding the included `Card Dance’ plugin would be appropriate here… or that also should be the `Basics’ forum?

[Cory Petkovsek]

That stuff is a flag for the moderators.

If your question is something you should know but don’t (like alpha channels), it should be asked in the basics forum. If it’s something that requires AE mastery/trickery to do, this forum is better. Most likely a question about card dance will be a basics question, in it’s own thread.

In fact most likely your question has already been answered, so make sure to search first. >50% of the questions asked could be answered by searching or self struggle. I know this because I don’t think I’ve ever asked a question on CC; I can usually find the answer with search or figure it out on my own.

Cory

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