Transparency on white gradients from Motion

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Transparency on white gradients from Motion

Hi there. If I nest a motion sequence into FCP that has white gradiented transparency and super it onto video, it introduces black into the tranparency. When importing the PSD file that was animated in Motion directly into FCP as a super, the white transparency gradient works perfect. But that defeats the joy of animating elements in Motion for FCP.

Anyone out there knows the solution?

G5d2.7, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 17, 2006 10:30 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 17, 2006 10:57 AM in response to pixeleyed

If you're working in DV, the DV codec doesn't carry the alpha channel needed for the transparency. If you export the Motion Project as a QT movie with an Animation codec instead, it will.

Jerry

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Mar 18, 2006 3:29 PM in response to Jerry Hofmann

I'm not talking about exporting the video and then importing into FCP - I'm talking about nesting the Motion project directly into FCP (That is irrelevant of codec support for transparency / not. ).

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pixeleyed Author

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Mar 21, 2006 10:06 AM in response to pixeleyed

OK. Problem solved:
Item properties was set to STRAIGHT alpha (default). Selecting it in the browser and changing it to BLACK solved the problem. (Thanks Mark)

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