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alpha channel in tif is black, not transparent in viewer
I am working with Final Cut Pro 5 by Larry Jordan, p. 402, Creating a Traveling Matte. He says to double click a tiff file and load it into the viewer. In the book the transparent checker board appears behind a white snowboarder in the Viewer. (It is a traveling matte we are working on using the three video layers.) When I double click it to put the tif into the viewer, it is black behind a white snowboarder, not the transparent checkerboard he shows in the book. Needless to say, what he describes as working does not work since I have black instead of transparent showing in the Viewer. Is there something wrong with this tif file or is there a setting somewhere that will let me see the black area as transparent? I tried changing the type of alpha channel from black to white to straight to none. Nothing works. Is there some other setting in Final Cut that will let me look at the area behind the white snowboarder as transparent instead of black in the Viewer? The book is trying to put a video inside a graphic image of a snowboarder. V1 at the bottom, V2 is the tiff, V3 is another snow scene.
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