[Eric Pyrskalla]

Thanks for the quick reply Adam!

I saved out the full render as a TIFF file with alpha channel checked and straight alpha checked. I saved my multi-pass as a PSD with alpha channel check.

Now when I open up my compositing file in After Effects I drop my RGBA file to the bottom of the layer stack and then drop my full render below that. I then turn on Alpha Inverted Matte on the full render. My background does show up but I have a white line where the plane meets the background object. And anything in front of the background object (like my text and Poser figure) is ruff looking like it doesn’t have any anti-aliasing. I tried to use a simple choker but it only made things look worse.

I’ve only been using multi-pass and luma matte’s for a couple of weeks now so I’m still learning 🙂

Thanks,
Eric

[Eric Pyrskalla]

Adam, thank you for the reply and taking the time to help me.

I looked in my render settings for a Multi-pass called “background” and I don’t have it. I looked in every single setting for “background” or any reference to background and I didn’t see anything.

When I look in the layer tab in the picture viewer I do see a layer called “background” but the eye is always closed when I render and it never renders out a layer called background.

I did a render with an alpha channel but I’m not really understanding what I need to do as far as render settings go.

In the “save” settings I have save to file unchecked. Alpha channel and Straight Alpha checked. In multi-pass I have Straight Alpha checked and I’m also saving to a compositing project file for After Effects.

I’m totally not understanding what I need to do to get my background object to show up in After Effects.

Thanks again Adam,
Eric