Problem Importing Transparent PNG/PSD File

[Steve Brame]

Works perfectly here.

Right-click on the graphic in the Project Panel. Select Modify, then Interpret Footage. Make sure that ‘Ignore Alpha Channel’ isn’t checked.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Hassan Ajmal]

Thanks for your reply.

I uploaded a video of my issue…

Please check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHeCld7rzo

[Steve Brame]

Your ‘Track Output’ for Video 2 in the timeline is toggled off. It’ll be the small box to the left of the ‘Video 2’ label that on Video 1 looks like an eyeball. On Video 2 it will be an empty box because you’ve toggled it off, making that track invisible. Try clicking that empty box to make the eyeball icon appear, and I bet everything will be OK.

The normal background in the Source Monitor is black, so anything with an alpha channel will show black through that channel.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Ann Bens]

Actually the background is an empty void and shows up as black.

As Steve said turn on the eyeball and it will show your still.
Hoeree for YT, we would never had figured this one out was it not for the video you made.

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[Duca Simone luchini]

Hallo everybody,
I make two different simple freeze frame in .TGA (premulty matte) to have transparency and to composite both in Premiere Pro over a Background clip.
(I also tried with PNG (premulty matte)
In AE I have this Diffuse Pass:

and this Shadows Pass:

When I import in Premiere Pro, I interpret both .TGA and I check that any “Ignore transparency” is unchecked:

All right, but why I still can’t see transparency (Alpha is black…!)?

[Steve Brame]

Premiere’s default background color is black. Is it possible that you are seeing that? Have you tried placing something behind your still?

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creative illusions Productions

[Duca Simone luchini]

No, no, of course, i have before over the clip putted but.

I but I just read that maybe this is a bug in Pre Pro CS6 …
I’ve 6.0.2 Mac os but Adobe has not still fixed this bug. That’s really bad…

[Duca Simone luchini]

I confirm that you have to render in AE your passes with Alpha (as Difuse, shadows, AO, ecc…) in Quicktime RGB + Alpha with ProRes 4444 code. And in Premiere Pro can you finally see you footage with transparency.
This, however, is an emergency solution, found on the forum of Adobe Commynity. It ‘still embarrassing as it is not possible that a sw like Premiere Pro CS6 can not handle transparency in the alpha channel. Incredible.
The bug has not been fixed…

Premiere Pro 6.0.2 – Mac Osx

[Allie Mccormick]

I had the same issue—a transparent PNG was showing up with a black background in Premiere CC. I had to open the image in Photoshop and change the color mode from Indexed Color to RGB Color. That fixed it for me.

Image>Mode>Indexed Color.

Good luck, playas.