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really need help with project… PLEASE
Hi Brothers and Sisters of the Cowgregation,
I am in desperate need of advice.
I created a lower third in Photoshop CS, added a layer for a gradient, saved the work with an alpha channel and opened the PSD in AE 6.5 Pro. There I animated the lower third, created a text layer where a rectangular mask revealed the person’s name over the course of a second. I then saved all of this as an .AVI file and imported it into Particle Illusion. I wanted to use the simple sparkles to help “reveal” the name and follow the mask I created. I was able to do all of this with relative ease… That was the setup and no here’s the problem.
I created a really nice looking lower third and was able to output as both a .PNG sequence and a .JPG sequence. I put it back into AE to see how well it looked over footage and everything was fine. So, then I tried going into both Vegas and Premiere Pro and EVERY SINGLE TIME I put the lower third over the footage I get the lower third but I also get a Black background where the footage should be. I have told both Vegas and PP1.5 that there is an alpha channel, I have tried various blending modes with Vegas and I cannot get the lower third to look right at all in Vegas (the “add” mode is the only mode that works but it DRASTICALLY removes the color I created for the lower third). I cannot find blending modes in PP1.5.
I know what you are all thinking… I should just use the footage from AE (and, I probably will) but then why did I buy Vegas and PP if I can’t use them for what I want to help expedite the process. I have read books on alphas, watched Aharon Rabinowitz’s Particle Illusion Fusion video with regards to alphas and outputs and am still experiencing this very frustrating result. Any advice for the Vegas side of this would be greatly appreciated. I have tried importing media, creating a .mov and every kind of sequence possible. PLEASE PLEASE HELP.
Thanks in advance.
Sethwordtoyomutha
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4 Replies
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First of all, assuming the PNG sequence has the alpha channel, use that. After loading the sequence, right-click it, choose Properties, and pick the proper alpha channel mode.
Edward Troxel
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I do this all the time but with targa sequences – make sure your targas have the alpha and then after importing as targa sequence do what jedittv says to do above (properties – select alpha).
Hope this helps
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Yes,
I have tried the PNG sequence with an alpha channel. Again, this COMPLETELY works in AE but not in Vegas and PP. I have not tried the TGA sequence so I will give that a shot. Thanks.
Seth
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I figured the whole thing out finally. When I had posted this message I had been up for about 30 hours working on a project and didn’t realize I wasn’t changing the output in AE to Straight (instead of premultiplied) and as a RGB+Alpha Sequence. My bad.
Thanks for the response, though…
Seth
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