[Blind Lemon]

Yep, the background is transparent. I had to find that switch that toggles solid to checkerboard..thanks for that. I’m beginning a few test with the info I got here. Just a quick history, I just took each layer from photoshop (with a transparent background) and imported them into after effects. I figured doing that from a .psd was good enough ie: each element doesn’t have alpha channel.

Blind Lemon

[Blind Lemon]

Wow, great stuff for me to investigate. I sure appreciate the help, I’ll give them a try and let you know if it works. I know it should. Looks like I need to do a couple more things when i output because I did bring a quicktime movie of my animation over a larger background and did see the “big rectangular background” from after effects even though the background is supposed to be there just for compositing.

Thanks again
Blind Lemon