Rendering a animation with alpha channel issue

[Johananb]

Hello dear people,

Im have a issue.

I have been working on a project to animate a logo for a cliënt. The animation ends with a transition to reveal the video below. I want to render the animation so, that the cliënt can use the animation for every video he has in the future. I want to render the animation with alpha. He can put the animation on top of every video, and then the transition works everytime.

Now for the problem. I know how to render the animation with the alpha channel. like Apple prores 4444. But the problem is that if i want to play it the file is very choppy. I find this ugly to send to the cliënt and say that if he uses the animation it wil not be choppy when he renders it for himself.

I can use other presets like animation or Cineform. But the file size is huge!! 

Is there an other way for this? A way I dont know of yet?  

[Mylenium]

No, there is no other way. That is simply the tradeoff of quality over fast playback. While ProRes and Cineform are compressed already, their compression algorithm is simply too taxing on the computer to guarantee realtime playback under all conditions. Indeed you have to educate your client about these things rather trying to "fix" this when there realyl is nothing wrong.

Mylenium

[Byron Cortez]

I would tell you to try an Animation codec but it really doesn't matter because it will still be heavy. However, if you send it to your client with the Animation codec, it will at least have more compatibility on Windows than Apple ProRes and possibly play more smoothly. Currently both are supported on Windows but the Animation codec already has several yesterdays with Windows. And if your client needs the video with Alpha he will have to adapt to the sizes of the broadcast footage.

[Rick Gerard]

I would use GoPro Cineform 10 bit with alpha. It has the best chance of playing back smoothly on any system.