Skip to main content
trashcaneron
trashcaneron
Inspiring
September 25, 2019
Question

HEVC / H265 with Alpha Support in AME

  • September 25, 2019
  • 13 replies
  • 38496 views

Apple recently announced support for Alpha with HEVC. This is great news. Does anyone know about it being available in Creative Cloud / Media Encoder. Looking forward to a lightweight / compressed codec that supports Alpha. 

 

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/506/

      13 replies

      Show previous replies
      LEVEL10
      LEVEL10
      New Participant
      January 5, 2021

      Any update？

        tanzblume
        tanzblume
        Known Participant
        April 22, 2021

        At the moment we are using a workaround.
        We are using macOS Catalina (10.15) with Adobe, we are rendering Apple ProRes 4444 with Alpha.
        After rendering open this file with QuickTime and save it as HEVC with transparency.

        R
        Rajovo
        Inspiring
        May 29, 2022

        Doesn't work for me. Input is ProRes 4444XQ with alpha, plays fine everywhere, but Export to H265 removes the alpha channel even when "preserve transparency" is ticked.

        S
        Community Manager
        Shivangi_GuptaCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        November 15, 2019

        Hi all,

         

        Sorry for the delay in response. The engineering team has kept adding this feature under review. Though there is no news when will this be implemented/added to the application.

         

          tanzblume
          tanzblume
          Known Participant
          May 6, 2020

          Are there some new informations about it?

          Thank you

            trashcaneron
            trashcaneronAuthor
            Inspiring
            June 8, 2020

            I am also curious if there's been an update to this. 

             

            In Catalina, it looks like you can convert a video with an alpha channel (I.e., APR 4444+A) right in the finder by right clicking and selecting the encode option. Transparency included. Not sure if you can queue things and there are limitted options so it isn't ideal, but certainly a decent work around for now. 

             

            Going to be running a test on this and update here with results. 

             

            It also looks like you can do it natively in Compressor or even just the terminal:

            https://kitcross.net/hevc-web-video-alpha-channel/

             

              S
              Community Manager
              Shivangi_GuptaCommunity Manager
              Community Manager
              September 28, 2019

              Hi there,

               

              Great news!

              I'll get you update on this soon.

               

              Stay tuned!

               

              Thanks,

              Shivangi

                trashcaneron
                trashcaneronAuthor
                Inspiring
                September 30, 2019
                I'm really looking forward to this. Right now the only compressed codec that supports Alpha that works for Windows and Mac and plays back decently in programs like Isadora, MadMapper, Unity is HAP+Alpha and it takes forever to transcode.
                W
                Warren Heaton10841144
                Community Expert
                January 5, 2021

                Did Unity change something since 2018?  Freelancing at a small all Windows shop, they had to pick up a Mac Mini to import Apple ProRes 4444 with Alpha into Unity.

                Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
                Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices