Transparent Background

[angelg89978074]

Hello everyone. I have an issue where everytime I start up a new comp, the beginning screen will be transparent. I tried everything to change it back to black or any other color, but I haven't found anything. Whenever the comp settings pop up, the background color doesn't do anything and the background remains transparent. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Martin_Ritter]

As long as you don't put any layer in the comp, it is always transparent. There is a switch in comp view to show actual transparency. If it's on, you always start with a transparent comp, if it's off, you see the comp background color.

*Martin

[angelg89978074]

Wow, I can't believe it was that easy. I'm kind of embarassed by it since I believed it would be more out there. Thank you so much for the help, I'll make sure to rememeber that. Have a great day 🙂

[Rick Gerard]

You should also be aware that the comp background color does not render to most formats. If you want to see a colored background in your final render it is always a good idea to add a colored solid to the comp panel so the Alpha channel is all white. There is almost never a reason to change the Comp Background Color in the Composition settings. Only experts creating graphics that need pre-multiplied with Alpha renders should consider it.

[Martin_Ritter]

I though of adding this, but who is asking such a thing is going to render right into H.264 anyways.