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This would really help me out a lot…
I created a text composition with the “helicopter” animated text effect. The background is black and the text is white. I need to somehow export it at the smallest file size possible, but with the best quality. I have to open the exported file in Sony Vegas 6.0. Can someone please tell me step by step how to render and/or export this so I can add it to my Sony Vegas project. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
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I don’t know anything about Vegas but I assume it suppoerts quicktime and I assume you want the text to have transparency so that it will composite over your picture.
Render your comp. The default settings should have it using lossless which is Quicktime using the ‘animation’ codec. But since you want an alpha channel. Set the settings to ‘millions of colors+’ and to RGB + Alpha. You will probably want to play around with exporting as a premultiplied alpha and a straight alpha. Whatever you choose, set the alpha in Vegas as the same. If you set it opposite you can get dark or bright halos around the edges when you try to composite the image.
Chris Smith
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A PNG Sequence is also uncompressed and can contain alpha.
Good file sizes too. -
The way I’ve always done that sort of thing is to have the comp background the same color as the object you’re flying. Then you don’t have to worry about whether your alpha is prematted or not. It’s something I picked up with logos in Photoshop, saving to 32 bit TGA files. Make the RGB image the solid color(s) of the logo, let the alpha channel do the rest.
I know that’s not always a possibility, but that’s how I do it when I can.
Clint
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That would be the same as a straight alpha then, no?
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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