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  • exporting animations for use in FCP

    Posted by Miles Mcclane on May 23, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Hi.

    I have made an animation in Photoshop CS4, which I would like to use as a part of my showreel in FCP(5).

    The animation is based on a video file, which I have rotoscoped so that the element I want is the only thing that remains. This is on a transparent background. Then I added some other elements mainly in Tif format, which I animated using tweens in the animation pallet.

    Basically what i have ended up with Is a (rotoscoped video) Snowboarder jumping over an animated Image. The snowboarder is a black outline with a white filling and the rest of it is black outlines on transparent background.

    I need to export into FCP (or Premiere Pro) I’v tried to save it in numerous ways, .mov, .avi, .gif and every time the result is a sort of messy inverted version, where instead of a transparent B/G, it is black, the snowboarder is solid white, and the rest of it is sort of distorted white bits.

    I hope you can understand that gibberish mess I have just written, and if you can, come out with some helpful advice for someone who is about to kill himself.

    Thanks very much….joe.

    Richard Harrington replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Richard Harrington

    June 21, 2009 at 1:59 am

    File > export

    choose a codec like animation that supports alpha.. specify millions colors +

    Richard M. Harrington, PMP

    Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork

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