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Marco34967441sfoc
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June 14, 2024
Question

Transparency issues exporting AE

  • June 14, 2024
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Hello,

 

I am having trouble exporting a transparent video from AE. I have made the background transparent on my video as well as the fill (only a short animation of the stroke), Everything shows up correct on the AE preview with the right transperincies the problem is the export. When I add it to the render queue I make sure to change the settings to:

QuickTime, RGB + Alpha, Apple ProRes 4444

and it still comes out with a black background... I've tried compressing the file after and selecting preserving but still black. 

 

Please help! Thank you

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    erinmjeffrey
    Participant
    January 6, 2025

    Aame issue. I used QuikTime AppleProRes444 with alpha. 

     

    Mohammad.Harb
    Community Expert
    Mohammad.HarbCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 18, 2024

    To make sure that the exported vides has a transparent BG, import the exported video into after effects and check if the BG is transparent.


    Otherwise, you have to try another codecs that Wix supports like: 

    Apple Animation (MOV),

    PNG Sequence (MOV),

    GoPro Cineform (MOV)

    AVI uncompressed (AVI)

    ShiveringCactus
    Community Expert
    ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 15, 2024

    What program are you bringing the video into?  Are you importing it into something that can accept alpha channels and more importantly can accept ProRes 4444?

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    Marco34967441sfocAuthor
    Participant
    June 17, 2024

    I am bringing it into WIX, they have a transparent video tab, but it seems even before I drag it into the program the BG persits on my desktop after exporting despite me toggling Transparency on. Thank you!

    ShiveringCactus
    Community Expert
    ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 18, 2024

    Just had to look that up.  That's impressive that WIX offers it and they do list ProRes 4444 as an accepted format.  That it's not playing on your desktop is less surprising.  The player would need to accept transparency. 

     

    I should have asked this sooner, but if you bring the video back into After Effects, does it retain its alpha channel?

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 14, 2024

    You need to ask program questions in the forum for the program you are using
    To ask in the forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/
    Moving from Using the Community (which is about the forums) to the correct forum

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    Marco34967441sfocAuthor
    Participant
    June 17, 2024

    Will do, Thank you!

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