Possible to screen record an Action with transparency

[Guy Burns]

I'm not sure whether I should be asking this question here, or in QT, or in Premiere, but here goes.

I use a process that involves PS, Quicktime and Premiere, to generate real-time animated lines (such as signatures, drawings). The process is basically:

• Choose a brush (size, colour), practise the animation, then record as an Action.
• On a white background, play the Action (as a step-by-step which preserves real timing) while screen-recording with QT.
• Import the recording into Premiere and use it's tools to remove the white background, leaving the animation all by itself.

Instead of asking Premiere to remove the background in the final step (which works fine), I'd prefer if I could play the Action in PS on a transparent background, and then screen-record so that the resulting video retains transparency.

Might this be possible?

[Bojan Živković]

You have recorded brush strokes as step in Photoshop action? You can play action os transparent layer, it will do the same thing on any pixel based layer unless it is Smart Object because it can not paint on that layer.

Each action step is story for itself but each step has some requirements like pixel based layer in the Layers panel selected as in your case. Step to paint on layer will be executed on any selected pixel based layer like Background layer, transparent layer, layer with pixel content... Pixels on layer must be unlocked, that is default behaviour when you create new layer, if you see error message post it here.