Creating Transparent GIF?

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Creating Transparent GIF?

I've got an animation with a transparent background. I export it out directly through Compressor to make GIF. The transparency is gone; it's become a solid black background.

I export out a ProRes 4444 and it works fine, only it's 45 megs. When a GIF will only be 6 megs. This is for a website.

I'm not getting a transparent GIF either way. Now, I'm using single frame animation that I've embedded in a compound clip ... but I don't think that should make a difference. The ProRes 4444 is working fine.

Any ideas out there? I found in someone's previous post that you said it SHOULD work Luis S. ... but I can't get it to.

All ears, Ben

Posted on Nov 22, 2021 7:08 PM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Nov 23, 2021 7:35 AM in response to Ben Low

You have to make sure that the Render Codec in FCP is ProRes 4444.

In FCP, press Command-J to see the project properties, then click Modify.

Then you can export using Compressor settings and the transparency will be honored.

Yes, it is weird that this works for one export - even without changing the rendering codec - but not the other.

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Ben Low Author

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Nov 23, 2021 8:36 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Ha ha ha. You know Luis, what I might have done was export the ProRes 4444, saw that it produced a .mov with an alpha channel. That works. And then I bet I went back and exported from that same timeline (ProRes 422) to Compressor and got the non-transparent version. Then I dumped the ProRes 4444 .mov file directly into Compressor and got the .gif with the alpha channel!

It was me not thinking things through. I'm going to try it again today, directly from the timeline to Compressor (only changing the timeline to the ProRes 4444 before I do).

Thank you most kindly Luis, very much appreciated ...

A grand day to you today ...

Ben

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