Are Transitions with Alpha Channels allowed?

[Joe Bowden]

You have to create your transition material entirely in AE or Premiere, so whatever they support should carry over in Encore.

[Eric Jones]

Thaks Joe for your response, but I’m not sure I understand would I create the enitre project in Preimere or AE then Import in Encore?

I started building an Encore project from finished clips, and also made a transition as an avi file – is this not going to work?

thanks,
eric

[Joe Bowden]

No, not the project – the transition material (i.e., the video that contains a frame grab of the menu, followed by a transition to a clip or another menu, etc) – that transition clip must be made in AE or Premiere.

[Eric Jones]

Thanks Joe,

For a quick response.

Yes I understand now, what you’ve explained I have done, however my menu is a motion menu…
so I would need that transition to crossover two different clips; alpha channel in use on both clips to make a transition happen as one clips ends (menu still in motion as transition occurs).

That is my dilema, but from your explanation of a using frame grab, it seems as though my wish will not (at this time) be a possibility and I might have to use a work around.