[Mark Preston]

The lens flare element is using a fill option within shape>style tabs of the inspector.

It has been set to work with the media drop zone within the template which is set to see through its fill layer.

The way I quickly fixed the problem was to uncheck the fill box and tick the outline box.
Then set the brush opacity to 0% and the width to whatever but not 0.

Seems to have worked. If I knew more I’d look around within the blending settings of the layers.

[Mark Preston]

I’ve been playing with this exact same thing this morning.

The lens flare seems to not work as an alpha channel unless you have a drop zone behind it within the template.

Exporting it as a mov file with alpha or exporting it as a master template for fcp doesn’t change anything, it still renders with a black background behind the lens flare.