[Stephen Smith]

Take a look at this Apple Motion Particle Tutorial. Best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

I’ve only seen that warning once. I restarted my Mac and then it exported just fine. Hope that helps.

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[Stephen Smith]

Try the Luma Key filter.

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[Stephen Smith]

Is it still blocky when your set to Best?

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[Stephen Smith]

Set your project to best on export. If you are placing the project file in FCP go up to Sequence, Settings. Click on the Render Control tab and check the “Always Use Best Quality When Rendering Movies” check box and that will to the trick. Best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

I have not watched these tutorials on keylight but I think it will be of great help. It is 4 parts:

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Multi-Layer-Editing-1/1

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Multi-Layer-Editing-2/1

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Multi-Layer-Editing-3/1

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Multi-Layer-Editing-4/1

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[Stephen Smith]

I would use the Animation codec, it will work for someone on a PC and a mac. You don’t need to compress it as a .SWF file. The Flash person will do the compressing. They will most likely want it uncompressed. Flash will compress the footage with the background when the web guy is done with it. We just give it to them as an Animation – millions +. To do that in FCP go to File, Export, Using Quicktime Conversion. Click on the Options button. Set the Video to Animation. Make sure the Compressor setting is set to Millions of Colors +. That is what will give you the alpha channel. Thats it, you don’t need to do anything else, the Flash person will know what to do from there.

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[Stephen Smith]

I’m not a fan of the keyer in Motion. Motion 5 got a better keyer but I have not used it. I love Keylight which comes with AE. The FCP keyer is okay but it is not good with hair and glass.

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[Stephen Smith]

[Chris]

Export to Prores 4444 or animation w/ alpha.
Compress to .SWF file with alpha for the web.

Can PC guys use Proress 4444 in Flash? If yes that is great news. Every time I do this they want Animation with Alpha. They then bring it into Flash and let flash compress it when it makes the website.

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[Stephen Smith]

Happy to help and best of luck.

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