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live type loses Alpha in FCP – help
Hi,
I’ve just upgraded to Tiger and FCP 5. When I make a title in
Live Type it’s fine. When I import it into FCP and play it in the browser it has an alpha channel. When I pop it onto the timeline
the alpha channel goes and it’s black behind. What’s happening?Thanks,
Kathy -
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What does the Properties of the clip say?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Type: Clip
compressor: animation
Field dominance: Upper
Alpha Straight
composite: normal -
That all sounds correct and I just checked a clip here with an alpha channel and it has the same settings as that. Not really sure why the alpha would not be working correctly then.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Now, Walter, that’s not what I wanted to hear!!
Kathy
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I think there were some similar post weeks ago. They were about AE renders with alpha. Both are animation codec so it should be the same issue. Something about installing FCP 5 in the correct order. QT, OS, the FCP 5 maybe?
I’m just getting FCP 5 today so no first had experience yet.
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It shouldn’t make a difference but if you’re working in NTSC, your field order needs to be lower field first.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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make sure in LT that you go to the “Project Properties” pane and UNCHECK “Render Background.”
If you have been using a black (or other color) to give your text more contrast in LT and you had the aforementioned checkbox active you are actually exporting the backplate as well.
If it is unchecked already make sure you have no unwanted layers above the background bar (It’s the bar that splits the timline horizontally). Anything below that bar will be considered background and only render according to your preferences, if any elements are above the bar they will render out as a total composite.
Good Luck
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Ok here it goes…..
After you import the Live type created clip into FCP, put it into the timeline and double click..check the ‘Filters’ tab in the source window…de click the shift fields tab…where that ‘shift fields’ filter comes from I don’t know but its there evrytime I create a movie with alpha channel in AE or LT…
Hope that helps..
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that’s the one! Thank you.
Kathy
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