AVI’s transparency

[Elvis Deane]

There isn’t support for importing or exporting AVIs with alpha channels in pI at this time, so an image sequence is really the only way to go at the moment.

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[Alan Lorence]

Why is working with an image sequence instead of an AVI a pain? Every application I know that supports movies and image sequences makes no distinction between the two. Once you load an image sequence into the application, you can’t tell the difference between it and a movie file.

Here’s how you do it in Premiere Pro:

https://www.animationsforvideo.com/html/imptsapp.htm

Alan.
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[Kaput99]

Ok, thank you for your help.
I know that you can place the sequence of pictures in a Bin and handel all of them. The problem here is that if you need to make some kind of repositioning and zoom in/out, then this is really a pain…unless there is something else that I can do in Premiere that I don’t know.

[Ttsaddict]

If you REALLY need AVIs with alpha channel, you can just compose them yourself (while PI still doesn’t support them).
Save your Animation to an image sequence, load this into, say, VirtualDub (be sure to explicitly check 32bit output in video bit depth options) and recompress with a lossless codec (be sure to select one that doesn’t just ignore the upper eight bits without a word). Then import that to your desired application.

[Kaput99]

Hi,
>>>> and recompress with a lossless codec (be sure to select one that doesn’t just ignore the upper eight bits without a word).
Wich codec do you suggest?. I have tried a couple withour succes, maybe I don’t have any of the required ones.
Thank you for your help.

[Ttsaddict]

I don’t know of any other than my favourite -> the free, lossless huffyuv codec, because it perfectly suits my needs. But I’m sure there are many more.

Get HuffYuv here: https://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html