FLV export gone.. need alpha channel in video for Flash

[JoelArt]

Hello, I've just noticed that the option of exporting video files in FLV format has been removed from the AF CC 2014 version. This is very destructive to our workflow as we need the "alpha" channel of the flv for use in Flash.

Is there a way to restore flv export functionality?

[Plamic]

I have the same problem. I installed back older version AE CC and when I start it i see "You can’t use this version of the application “Adobe After Effects CC.app” with this version of OS X. You have “Adobe After Effects CC.app” 12.0.".

So how I have to make transparent video for flash when I can't lunch AE CC?

[Todd_Kopriva]

To use After Effects CC (12.x) on Mac OS 10.9 or later, install the most recent update for that version;

http://adobe.ly/DVA_updates

[Cptbruno]

If Adobe is going to remove FLV from these programs, then they should update their Captivate program to accept video formats other than FLV that support an alpha channel. The only other format currently supported is MP4 which can't have an alpha channel.

[tonybot3]

FLV's going away? Fine. I don't care about the format as much as i care about the functionality. Flash CC needs the ability to import a commonly used format that retains the alpha channel.  Period, point, blank...  I don't care for FLV's anyway, but why is that our only option, in the first place?  Plenty of codecs support alpha channel, so Flash should be able to import all those.

[terysimSFI]

Tonybot: ABSOLUTELY,

This is the crux of the matter.

We aren't attached to FLASH. It has been around a LONG time.  Of course it is outmoded as a CODEC.

But WHY? WHY? WHY? haven't the geniuses at ADOBE created a modern compressed, efficient Display video format with Alpha Channel to replace Flash? Why do they think that h264 MP4 replaces it? With only 3 channels RGB. Where is the Alpha?

Filmmakers have been using image overlay since at least the 1920's to great effect. To place a figure filmed elsewhere into an environment.  Charlie Chaplin and others made films that still delight us, using these "in-camera special effects". One of the coolest films I saw early in my career was from 1924 and the title sequence featured Lon Chaney Sr. as a clown running on a phonograph record as it spun around. For the past 20 years I've been using greenscreen, and in the past 8 years using Flash to make websites in which the entrepreneur walks out from behind a banner and points to stuff on the webpage. It is fun, and engaging.

Who cares about outputting FLV files, give us a replacement codec, one that even Apple can support because it doesn't consume so many resources. But something that encodes Alpha Channel.  Are we to be the first generation of filmmakers in 100 years NOT to have this ability to make transparency.  Shame on you!

Terry

[Roei Tzoref]

please use this wishform so Adobe knows about this. this is the way to change things for all of us.  Feature Request/Bug Report Form

[terysimSFI]

sorry,

Your link is to a page for ONLY Acrobat Reader.

I use CC. Mostly Premiere & Media Encoder

Do you have a better link

[UXDW]

[Vinay Dwivedi]

Hi Richard,

Plese install Premiere Pro CC 7.0 or any other (Audio/Video CC application ) and It will install Media Encoder for you. Media Encoder was not a seperate download in CC version but was introduced as a seperate download After CC 2014 release.

//Vinay

[UXDW]

ah, you star Vinay!

yes, I can confirm that although it isn't in the 'Cloud' listing, installing AE CC will install AME CC as a separate app on your system.

Sad such work-arounds are needed but typical Adobe, thankfully an easy 'fix' for now, so again thank guys!!

[The_Wynns]

so is there a way to export a video with an alpha channel in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 or not?  I'm not finding the "alpha" option on any of the Quicktime or AVI settings anymore.

[martinc13962311]

‌Apple prores 4444, or animation codecs.

[Vinay Dwivedi]

Hi Martin,

Check the below blog for the same.

exporting video with an alpha channel (transparency) | Premiere Pro work area

//Vinay

[The_Wynns]

Thank you, this solved my issue.

[RaphBenzazon]

As always, adobe is stabbing its customer base in the back, just because some managers think better of themselves when they try to please an idea of the tech, against their users. How much should we get back in time and progress to please the idea that adobe has nothing to do with it, that it's a standard. You're making adobe useless. Can't you see that it's been almost 10 years that everybody wait for an alternative for flash and it seems less probable today than it was then, because now we know it's bullshit, adobe has had no positive impact on multimedia for HMTL, and in the same time adobe drowned flash by purpose. Soon the day will come when adobe has nothing anymore that retain its users. When the shitty HTML environment will be the only one, notepad++ and gimp will be the best tools available and every designer will need to be a developer.

Don't count on me to use edge the shitty that is the most ridiculously non optimized HTML animation editor and that I wouldn't even use for desktop target. It works only by piling shit on top of shit to make it bearable but it manages to make it heavy and totally proprietary while hiding behind the "standard using" brand. If flash was like that at the beginning I wouldn't have learned this job. For me flash is more standard than any HTML related output that adobe has developed, why because the tech is not ready, we'll need 3 major versions before it compares to flash.

In the mean time stop removing support for dozens of thing every release and work with the industry standard to make them complete by integrating the tons of missing stuff, then you'll create tools for this COMPLETE tech and only then the question will come if we still need the support of old tech. Now flash is not old tech, is often the only one to do the job completely and correctly.

[mkhn]

Is there a fix for this yet in CC 2015?  I am using an iPad mirroring software application to record the walk through on my iPad and save it as an mp4. It allows me to create a video and create a background that can be easily removed with an alpha channel in Premiere Pro. The problem is that there is no way to get this video into Adobe Captivate with an alpha channel. On import, Captivate wants to use the Media Encoder to change it to an FLV, but doesn't recognize the alpha channel. This is a HUGE issue in an eLearning software package. So much is done through simulation and we rely heavily on the ability to import videos with a transparent background. This would basically mean we would be dead in the water with Captivate and would more than likely have to start searching for different eLearning software that will recognize transparency channels. I have spent four days looking for an acceptable workaround for this issue to no avail, and it is to the point of frustration. Are there any acceptable answers and workarounds yet?  I don't see having old versions of software as a workaround. Most of us with laptops and solid state drives do not have the luxury of storage to have multiple versions installed.

[insanyrivas]

So it is about the middle of 2016. I was wondering if anyone has solutions for exporting alpha channel video other than using flv. I tried converting a 332KB alpha flv to a PNG sequence but it ended up being 25MB and a big hassle to animate. FLV was the only format I could use in Air for iOS/Android/Desktop for alpha channels. MP4 is a huge hassle to use with StageVideo which could only display below content and StageWeb above content. There is no way to layer video or use alpha channels. If FLV is dead what are we to use?

[genovese2]

I understand you have removed the FLV with alpha export filter in After Effects. You suggest using it in a previous version... Can you tell me how to get the earlier version? I need this export filter for producing AR video clips.

[Szalam]

genna graphics wrote:

I understand you have removed the FLV with alpha export filter in After Effects. You suggest using it in a previous version... Can you tell me how to get the earlier version? I need this export filter for producing AR video clips.

There have been several posts in this thread describing how to download older versions of AME. See this link for installing older versions. You can go as far back as CS6.

[DG. David Escalante]

Installing previous versions of Adobe Encoder is no longer an option since the older version available to download is 11.1.4, which doesn't allow for FLV encoding.

[DG. David Escalante]

OK, Adobe I NEED FLV with ALPHA

I may fail my deadline because of this. HOW do I download Adobe Media Encoder CS6 LEGALLY?

[Szalam]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/DG.+David+Escalante  wrote

OK, Adobe I NEED FLV with ALPHA

I may fail my deadline because of this. HOW do I download Adobe Media Encoder CS6 LEGALLY?

Download Premiere Pro CS6 via the Creative Cloud app (if it's still available) and it should also install AME.

[DG. David Escalante]

I already tried that with After Effects and it didn't worked, it didn't stalled AME CS6, but I will give it a shot with Premiere.

[DG. David Escalante]

As I suspected, it didn't work, it didn't install Adobe Media Encoder CS6, but it did install Adobe Encore CS6 for SOME reason.

Well, I found I can use Premiere CS6 to output the FLV, so that's good enough for me given all the trouble I had to get this far

[DG. David Escalante]

Also, what the hell is this?