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Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

  • 1.  Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-12-2014 10:35
    Hi,

    Can anyone let me know how I can export a scene from Xpression to a video codec with alpha channel that adobe premier will import with alpha channel?


  • 2.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-12-2014 11:43
    In the sequencer, right click and "Export Take Item To", Video. Fill parameters, and for codec, use "Xpression Video Codec vX.X".

    Import the file, and "Tadam !".

    PS : If Xpression is not installed on the computer with Adobe Premiere, you can only install the codec on it.

    #XPression


  • 3.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-12-2014 19:38
    Where can I get the codec you are referring to? I also forgot to mention the Adobe premier CC would be on a Mac computer. Will the export and codec work on mac?

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  • 4.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-12-2014 19:50
    On mac... So no, you can't...

    But you can export a to a sequence of png or tga...

    Right click and "Export Take Item To", Image. And in format, choose what you want (I prefer png)...

    #XPression


  • 5.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-14-2014 12:55
    Ok. Thanks.. do you know of any programs where I can convert the .avi files to .mov's or anything else that I can import into premier with alpha channel?

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  • 6.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-14-2014 13:07
    No sorry...

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  • 7.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-14-2014 16:31
    Look for a program called "Wonder Share" on mac platform. This might be what you are looking for.

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  • 8.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-14-2014 19:20
    I dont think that wondershare works to include alpha channel. Does anyone know any others?

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  • 9.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-14-2014 19:44
    You might try Adobe Media Encoder. I've never used it, but have seen posts of people using it.

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  • 10.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-15-2014 19:39
    I have figured it out, in case anyone else needs this in the future. Here's what I did.

    - Exported scene to images>png sequence

    - On mac, opened up Quicktime 7 then file>open image sequence

    - Selected first png of the sequence>open

    - Save as>Quicktime .mov

    This method preserved the alpha channels and converted .png sequence to a quicktime .mov that opens up in Adobe Premier CC for mac. Allowing me to add XPression Lower thirds in to edits in post production.

    Thanks all for you help...

    #XPression


  • 11.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-15-2014 20:19
    Why not to import png directly to premiere ?

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  • 12.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 08-18-2014 10:47
    Importing the .png sequence created a ton on small clips on my timeline. And the animation was very slow for some reason. But it worked perfectly when I converted the .png to a .mov file.

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  • 13.  RE: Exporting scenes with alpha to video for Adobe Premier

    Posted 10-13-2015 20:58
    If you import the .png into Premiere it makes a slow animation because each .png file is around 30 frames instead of 1 to make a smooth animation.

    YOU CAN do this directly into premiere instead of Quicktime by doing this:

    - Open Premiere

    - File, Import

    - Go to your folder where your .png's are located

    - Click the first .png

    - Enable "Image Sequence" by checking the box

    - Import

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