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Can somebody help me with creating movies in after effects with alpha channel for playing in modul 8?
can not figure it out..

thanx

momo3010 wrote:Can somebody help me with creating movies in after effects with alpha channel for playing in modul 8?
can not figure it out..

thanx

Greetings,

Don't know if you want to learn a new application, but if you give Quartz Composer a try, I found making movie clips with alpha channels is SUPER easy (drag and drop, no rendering). QC is my new best friend.

Cheers,
Justin

AE creates alpha automatically but you must output in a QT format that supports it and make sure AE writes it to the file. The QT animation codec with millions plus output (RGBA) is the way to go.

Now, are you talking about a content specific question?

hi Justin,

thanx for the hint, but not another amp. To many programs on my harddrive... AE is for the moment my choise.

hi Stuart,

Rendering the composition in animation codec is what i've done, but how do I DEFINE (make, insert) my background (bottom layer) as alpha layer in my composition, so its transparent in modul8, when palying.
Why didn't they make an option : insert alpha layer, or do i suffer of a brain blockage?

It's simple momo3010..
..there can't be a "background layer" in an alpha composition.

I mean - there can - but everything (every layer element),
that covers the background of the composition
will be visible in the final movie and not transparent.

So background of the composition is not the same as a background layer

Btw. the color of the background has no effect,
when U use it in a program like Modul8,
because it will be transparent.

rolin

I'll try to shed more light.

Rendering a movie out will not seperate your layers. If you have a b-ground layer that is solid it gets rendered.

for example

create solid. We'll call this the background
create solid number 2. We'll call this foreground.
in solid number 2 create a simple text effect.
you should now see the background behind the text.

if you render this out as is there will effectively be no alpha.
what you have to do is create two different comps and render the layers out sperately if you want to end up with separate background and foreground layers in M8.

I do this all the time between AE and M8. I create multi-layer comps in AE and then cook out the layers as individual movies for re-assembly in M8. It's a very effective workflow.

I've got it,
really very easy
Perhaps i shoud study less to free brain my brain

Thanx all.
Greetings from grey Vienna