After Effects/Alpha channel
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- Meeklo0
Chosse and everyone else, for the 3rd time, thank you
Chosse please re read my other 2 post, I always thanks everyone on this community, helped me or not, and many can tell you, that will also return the favor.
I actually got it to work, if anyone is interested in learning here are every step I made.
Peace-
To render two movie files:
1. Choose Composition > Add to Render Queue.
2. Choose Custom from the Output Module pop-up menu to open
the Output Module Settings Dialog box.
3. Choose QuickTime Movie (Mac OS) or AVI (Windows) from
the Format pop-up menu.
4. Choose RGB from the Channels pop-up menu and Millions of
Colors from the Depth pop-up menu. Leave other settings
unchanged.
5. Click Format Options and select the Avid codec from the list of compressors,
then adjust quality as necessary, choosing the
appropriate level of compression (e.g., AVR 77 NTSC). Click
OK to close the Compression Settings dialog box.
6. Click OK to close the Output Module Settings dialog box.
7. In the Render Queue, choose Custom from the Render Settings
pop-up menu.
8. Choose the appropriate field order from the Field Render
pop-up menu and click OK.
9. In the render queue, click the underlined work next to Output
To to save and specify a location for the file, then click OK.
10.Choose Composition > Add Output Module from the main
menu. A new output module will appear in your Render Queue
below the queued project.
11. Choose Custom from the Output Module pop-up menu to
open the Output Module Settings Dialog box. Choose Alpha from
the Channels pop-up menu. Set format to QuickTime (Mac OS)
or Video for Windows (Windows) and the codec to Avid. Leave
other settings unchanged.
12. In the Render Queue, click the underlined work next to
Output To to display the Save Movie As dialog box, type in a
name for the movie file and specify a location to save the file then click OK.
13. Click Render.To import rendered movies into the Avid:
1. Import the RGB only and Alpha only movies into Avid.
2. Apply the Matte Key effect (for instructions, refer to your Aviduser guides).
The Alpha only movie will be used as the Foreground matte.
3. Select Reverse in the Matte Key effect to translate the
transparency information correctly of the Alpha only layer.
4. Adjust matte contrast as necessary.