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elindo586
Inspiring
September 25, 2020
Question

How to create a transparent puppet animation to use with Premier Pro?

  • September 25, 2020
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What is the way to create a transparent background file from CH to use in Premier pro and have a movie runing in the background of the character? 

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alank99101739
alank99101739
Legend
September 25, 2020

If you use dynamic linking, it avoids that step - but its too slow for me. You can drag a scene from ch into Prem Pro to create the dynamic link.

 

If you export video (which is what i do), in ch export media has two choices where one is with alpha/transparency. It will pick the best format for you. Prem Pro can then load that video, mix it, and you can generate mp4 etc from prem pro.

 

I don't use png as i found it a bit slower (opening a file per frame). My disk could not keep up.

alank99101739
alank99101739
Legend
September 25, 2020

Oh, i avoid chroma key with green as it can lower image quality. Since ch can export with transparency that will generate better quality. Sometimes chroma keying can end up with a slight green tinge around the edges.

 

Also i re-read your post. To be clear i generate a movie file with transparency from ch then load that file into prem pro in front of the background video. I also add credits, music, subtitles, etc in prem pro as appropriate. There is no need to use camtasia - prem pro has chroma key support too if you need to go that route. I search for demos on youtube on how to do it.

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    elindo586Author
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2020

    Thanks...

     

    For some reason I went with dynamic link.   It was supper slow on Permier Pro, don't kow if it was because the dynamic link or if it was because it was a 30 mins long mp4 video that I imported as well... or maybe because my computer needed updates or whatever, but I was getting super slow frame movements in the movie while trying to edit in premier pro. 

     

    Next time I'll use Alpha see how that works...

     

    Question...

     

    Alpha videos are set as .mov ?  Isn't that Apple stuff?  Do I need Apple Quick Time to play them?   Would they play Ok on Premier Pro?

     

    I am using Windows 10 and I don't have anything from Apple.   So, I haven't even exprerimented with the Alpha file. 

     

    I also did a PNG and it gave me a bunch of files that I haven't used either. 

     

    The Dynamic link was the quickest to drop in and start working, but maybe not the best to work on some editing as maybe it was slowing down my computer... so I think? 

     

    Anyway.. I do have to do another video soon and I'll explore the Alpha  file see if it doesn't slow down my computer. 

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    elindo586Author
    Inspiring
    September 25, 2020

    Apparently one way to do it is using Camtasia (wich I have) by putting a green background in CH and then just delete green in Camtasia.

     

    Using PP I might need to export it as Alpha .. which seems to be some sort of Apple file wich I don't have any Apple software installed in my computer.  Also not sure if Alpha would work with 1080p? 

     

    Another option might be creating the PNG files and using them with PP, which is what I am trying to do but takes a while for rendering.. 

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