composite imports

[Zak Peric]

Render the movie with alpha and bring in the movie back to FCP. You can choose Animation codec or if you have motion 4, you can use 4444pro res.

[Mark Spencer]

Zak is right on – and just so you understand what is going on, filters, generators, and transitions applied in FCP do not make the trip to Motion.

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[Anthony Faulkner]

Im sorry Im not understanding, How do i render with the alpha channel so i can take it into motion?

I can’t seem to find options for that anywhere in FCP.

I have 6.06 and motion 3

thanks for any advice

[Stephen Smith]

Anthony,
Mark an in and out point on the time line of the keyed footage in FCP. Make sure the clip is not rendered. Rendering will make it so it generates a black background of your keyed footage when you export it. Then go up to File, Export, Using QuickTime conversion… Make sure the Format is QuickTime Movie. Click on the Options Button. This will open up a Movie Settings menu. Click on Settings. Choose Animation for the Compression Type. Make sure the Depth is set to Millions of Colors +. The + is the alpha channel. Click on OK. Then click on OK in the Movie Settings window. Choose a location and then export out the clip. Import the clip into Motion and you have a keyed clip with the alpha channel. Hope this helps and best of luck.

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[Anthony Faulkner]

That is excellent!!!

Thank you very much, The + was what was getting me!!

I really appreciate your response

[Stephen Smith]

Happy to help. Thanks for the 5 COWs, you rock.

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