[Chris Gu]

Ok lol

I’m a noob. I just used video for windows made it RGB plus ALPHA and it worked.

Thanks for all the help.

Lol I can do lightsabers but I couldn’t figure out how to change my composition background lol.

[Chris Gu]

Oh and part of why I don’t want to use like png or targa is because it makes so many individual files… and I need to put my video in reverse. I need to put it into reverse because the freaking timer preset I used in AE I couldn’t set it to go in reverse. So I don’t want to have a bunch of images I’d need to manually move around.

I’m using 6.5 by the way…

I go to composition … make movie … (Look at the render queue) and scroll down to output module. Click output module and then go to Quick Time Movie

The only channel options I have are RGB or ALPHA not both together…

Any help?

[Chris Gu]

I don’t think what I asked made the most sense. Basically, I have a black background (for my composition) just like it would be set to for any new composition you make in AE. Then I just have a simple timer in white down at the bottom. All I want to do is have the timer in white and leave the background color black out of it (of course making it transparent)

So do I even need to bother toggling the transparency button?

Because everytime I go to render, and I’ve tried almost everyone’s method listed above – It looks transparent then shifts to black as it’s rendering (which means whatever settings I used didn’t work)

So am I missing something? I’m re reading your posts as we speak but I don’t know why this is so difficult for me lol.

[Chris Gu]

While it hides the background color if I export the movie the background color still exists. You’re talking about the “Toggle Transparency” button right? That one doesn’t work.