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Keying, alpha and transparency
Is there a way to render out a video where I’ve keyed out my greenscreen and garbage matte? All I want is the subject on a transparent background to wrk with at a later time in Sony Vegas Pro.
I’ve tried rendering MOV with RGB+Alpha as well as AVI/RGB+Alpha, but when I bring the video into Vegas, my subject is just against a black background and no combination of the tools in Vegas Pro is giving me what I want.
I’d key in Vegas, but it leaves a bit to be desired, keying in AE is much better.
Any advice?
– Marc
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I’m not a Vegas user, but I can tell you that you usually need to tell your NLE to interpret the alpha channel appropriately to make sure that it’s used as transparency.
Also, make sure that you’re using a codec within your QuickTIme or AVI container that can encode an alpha channel.
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I’ve managed to export the clip as a PNG images sequence which I can get to work, but MOV or AVI using RGB+Alpha doesn’t getthe desired results.
I’ll post this over in the Vegas Forum as well. Thanks for the help!
– Marc
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It depends on Vegas. You might need two output modules: one for RGB, one for alpha. Then you might matte them together in Vegas.
(I don’t use Vegas)
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