Trying to integrate Apple Motion with Vegas

Cooldraft wrote on 1/30/2010, 4:37 PM

I hve a project that I am using Motion on as my special effx generator and vegas as the main nle. I am exporting as dv 1.2121 color+alpha and Vegas can not pull the alpha. This works with Livetype (Vegas can pull the alpha fine on all livetype objects). I thought I would ask here to see if anyone else is co-mingling pps to make their work better.

Comments

Former user wrote on 1/30/2010, 6:23 PM

Normally the DV codec does not support alpha. You can use Animation Codec or an uncompressed AVI.

Dave T2

Cooldraft wrote on 1/30/2010, 6:46 PM

Thank you very much, winner!

[r]Evolution wrote on 1/31/2010, 6:53 AM

Definitely QT Animation w/ Alpha if you're hoping to come from MAC to PC and preserve the Alpha channel.

If you do not need the Alpha... I would still go with QT Animation from the MAC minus the Alpha channel. QT Animation is a bit larger but significantly cleaner.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/31/2010, 8:41 AM

I would also use square pixels when you export. PAR 1.2121 * 720 is 873x480. This is the resolution I would use with the Quicktime Animation codec. Also make sure the Animation codec attributes are set for 32-bit because 24-bit won't maintain the alpha either.

~jr