Still can’t export with transparent background

[Robin S. kurz]

[Kay Ghey] “I’ve gone ahead and recorded and uploaded a quick screen cast to see if anyone can spot me making the mistake, located here.”

Well, for starters, in that clip you have the render set to ALPHA ONLY and not COLOR + ALPHA. With that, you are rendering only the black and white alpha channel not an RGB clip with alpha channel!

[Kay Ghey] “Alpha channel is non-functional when FCPX display settings are set to “Proxy Media” it would seem…”

THAT of course being the step that makes near every other irrelevant, yes. Proxies are rendered in 422 Proxy. Ergo: no alpha.

But either way, I don’t understand why you even insist on RENDERING the clips, when you could simply PUBLISH the project as a generator. In which case there would be zero alpha issues, not even with FCP set to proxy. Not to mention just a fraction of disk space and time required.

– RK

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[Kay Ghey]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for sticking with me.
Honest answer to why am I rendering as opposed to publishing? Because I’m stupid ☺

I’m still brand new to motion and simply don’t know any better. Thanks for the response, I’m slowly finding my way and your willingness to offer advice to a newb is invaluable.

-Kasey

[Robin S. kurz]

So the entire thing actually came down to your being set to proxies? Or had you been using the same settings as in your video the whole time? Or both? Because both (be it together or by themselves) will of course lead to your issues.

Either way, in the context of using them in FCP, you’ll want to publish your projects instead of rendering them 99% of the time, yes.

– RK

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[Kay Ghey]

Thanks Robin ☺

But yeah, the greater amount of issues were working with Proxy files. I’m working on a severely underpowered computer right now and so didn’t have a lot of options. Upgrading soon.

And thanks again for the advice on publishing as opposed to rendering. I’m learning more about the difference but it does seem to be helping 🙂