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ryanb74751266
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July 28, 2015
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How do I make a GIF image transparent in After Effects? (Urgent)

  • July 28, 2015
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I've made my GIF image that originally had a white background, transparent. I brought it into After Effects, and the whiteness was still there. It's ridiculous.

Does anybody know how to get rid of the white in After Effects?

Thanks.

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      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      July 29, 2015

      AE does not support palette-based transparency. Export the GIF as an image sequence from Photoshop.

      Mylenium

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      Rick GerardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 29, 2015

      After Effects is lousy at creating animated gifs. If you need to do the animation in AE then render a lossless with alpha movie and open that in Photoshop and use the save for web feature to create your animated gif. If you are trying to fix an animated gif that has a problem then open that gif in Photoshop and do your clean up there.

        Dave_LaRonde
        Dave_LaRonde
        Inspiring
        July 28, 2015

        You can key it, you can mask out the white or you can use rotobrush on it.

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