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R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 6, 2018
Question

PNG with Alpha Workarounds

  • April 6, 2018
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These several workarounds have been posted by users here, I'm listing them together for use by all the community.

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Find the original png file in the project viewer, right click -> Modify -> Interpret Footage.

Under the Alpha Channel category, select "Conform Alpha Premultiplication To:

And also select the box: Premultiplied Alpha

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Haven't got time to go back though the thread to see if someone else has come up with this but the only way to fix it is to replace all of the .png files as .psd.  Finished a TVC this morning full of .png graphics and animations.  Saved them all as .psd and it's perfect.

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brought all my PNGs into After Effects and saved them as .MOV files with transparent backgrounds.

If you don't know how to save with transparent backgrounds, this was helpful: Quick Tip: Exporting with Alpha Channels in After Effects - The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat

I then brought the new MOV files into Premiere and put them in place of the PNGs. It was annoying to add the transitions all over again, but it worked! Deleting all PNGs from my project helped too. Anytime there was just one in the sequence, my whole video would render messed up. I too had a deadline today, and spent about 4 hours trying to figure out the problem. This was the best solution I could find for the time being.

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9 replies

masku2000
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
April 19, 2018

Check out today's release of Premiere Pro 12.1.1 and let us know if you are still seeing problems with PNGs.

Participant
April 19, 2018

Finally, fixed!

Participant
April 18, 2018

Sadly, the solution to this is converting your PNG's to TIFFs. Its a pain, but it solved my problems.

Just wish Adobe's Twitter support told me that. Versus the stock "a fix is coming" response.

Thank god for these forums and you guys.

etiennebergeron
Participant
April 17, 2018

TIFF for the win

marcusmullet2024
Participant
April 16, 2018

I turned all my .pngs into Illustrator files and brought them back into my project and replaced them and it's worked everytime for me.  Still REALLY annoying though, took me a long time to work this out and wasted a lot of time.  I wish Adobe could pay me for the time this has cost me. 

Known Participant
April 10, 2018

Reverted back to 2017 but the problem is still there upon exporting. Production has halted on some projects.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 10, 2018

Sorry ... that's painful, I know. Hoping this is fixed soon.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
April 10, 2018

I also tried taking my PNG animations to after effects and they are having issues there as well. So I reverted back to older version of premiere and the problem followed. Not sure what to do now.

Participant
April 10, 2018

Is there a way to have an animated PSD image sequence?

THanks

Participant
April 10, 2018

Alpha Channel workaround did not work for me. Changing the file to PSD resolved the issue. Did not try nesting.

Thank you!

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 7, 2018

As this is of course not yet sorted, it's probably necessary for many folks to try these. It would be helpful if folks posted their success ... or not ... with any of the above steps.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
mou53
Participant
April 8, 2018

What worked for me was to Nest my sequence where the PNG is used, fixed the issue immediately.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 8, 2018

That is a fascinating tidbit! Have you passed this info along on the new page li k they have for "feedback"?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...