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bb28142042
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Aug 27, 2025 6:19 PM UTC
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Exporting Premultiplied Alpha from Premiere

I need to generate premultiplied alpha exports from a Premiere sequence. Recommendations on how to do this? If I generate ProRes 4444 w/ 16bpc+Alpha they are always Straight/Unmatted. In AE this is selectable, how do you switch to premultiplied in Premiere? 

Sumeet_Kumar_ChoubeyCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
Aug 28, 2025 5:15 PM UTC

In Premiere Pro, you won't be able to export a video in Premultiplied alpha, but you can export ProRes 4444 in Straight alpha from Pr and then transcode it to ProRes 4444 Premultiplied alpha in After Effects. I hope it helps.

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

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Adobe Employee
Aug 28, 2025 4:00 PM UTC

Hi bb28142042,

We're sorry about this. Currently, in Premiere Pro, you can't export premultiplied alpha in ProRes. You'll need to use After Effects for that.

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

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bb28142042
Participant
Aug 28, 2025 4:13 PM UTC

@Sumeet Kumar Choubey is there a different codec that supports premultiplied in alpha? Also, can you confirm if a straight/matted prores is exported from premiere and transcoded into premultiplied alpha using After Effects that it will be correctly premultiplied? 

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
Aug 28, 2025 4:33 PM UTC

I don't think Premiere can create pre-multiplied alpha channels ... as that's been an irritation of a rather small group of highly technically experienced users for quite some time.

 

One always needs to go to Ae for that sort of thing.

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
Aug 27, 2025 7:22 PM UTC

I don't think it's an option in Premiere. Which it should be.

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bb28142042
Participant
Aug 27, 2025 11:33 PM UTC

does exporting a straight alpha from premiere and transcoding it in AE to a premultiplied alpha achieve the same result?

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