After effects cannot render movies with a transparent background, the only way I would achieve what your trying to do is use still images. one for the image and on for the alpha/mask of each frame of the sequence.
you can output the sequence from after fx once with the main image and once for the alpha then import those into director and place the images in this sequence,, 1still 1alpha 2still 2alpha and son on set the 1still and 2still to mask and he presto your movie is in and has a no background. then make this sequence into a movie loop to tidy it all up. htht Robin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Sent: 31 January 2003 06:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Movie transparency That's what I'm trying to do, but it goes back to my original question, when I key out the background in after effects the background color shows through, but I want transparency and not a background color, and AFX doesn't have an option to set the background to transparent, and I'd rather not do it manually for thousands of images. Anyone know how to do this in After effects or how to do it in another app? J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charlie Fiskeaux II Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Movie transparency Using an ink in Director would work, but it wouldn't be as flexible (and probably not as fast) as using 32 bit images. I would save the frames as 32bit TIFs or PNGs (so that their alpha channels dictate their transparency), and then import them into Director. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Movie transparency > Right, but how do I get the backgrounds of the image sequence > transparent beforehand? Is that do-able? How fast is director if I > were to key out the green in my images with white and use background > transparent in director? > > J > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charlie > Fiskeaux II > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Movie transparency > > > If the images aren't too large, or your framerate doesn't need to be > superfast, you could use an image sequence inside an LDM (a Director > shockwave movie (*.dcr) imported into your current movie) or flash. > > Charlie Fiskeaux II > Media Designer > The Creative Group > www.cre8tivegroup.com > 859/858-9054x29 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:52 PM > Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Movie transparency > > > > I made a completely green map for a game, and outputted bitmap > > sequences of some demos I recorded, because I just want the models. > > What I want to do is key out the green, which I have done in after > > effects, but I want a transparent background in the sequence when I > > render it back out into a png sequence, so I can use just the model > > animation as an overlay for another image, but I don't want to > > render the image into the sequence, because I want it to be a > > variable image within director. Any ideas? > > > > J > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of roy > > crisman > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:02 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Movie transparency > > > > > > To the best of my knowledge, and despite QT having alpha or > > transparency in their spec, you cannot actually have transparent, > > alpha-like behaviour from QT. You can mask, but not transparency. > > > > Maybe instead of trying to answer your question I should ask you to > > be > > > more > > specific: do you care what kind of video it is, do you mean 1-bit > > masking, or true 256 level alpha, etc.? > > > > roymeo > > > > At 03:58 AM 1/30/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >What type/format can I render out a movie in after effects in order > > >to have transparency within director? > > > > > >J > > > > > > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > > >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > > >list, > > email > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > Lingo-L > > >is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > > to > > > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]). 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