Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
Philip Ebiner
Lesson Info
93. Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
13:00 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
03:55 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
08:37 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
01:23 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
07:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
06:46 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
02:19 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
here's how you can export your video clips with a transparent background which is very beneficial for graphics like this with titles. So if I click on the toggle transparency, you can see that this actually doesn't have a black background. It's transparent so go up to rent composition, add to render, queue, click on lossless. And there's one thing that we have to change to make this a transparent background and that's under channels, choose RGB plus alpha. So it actually saves the Alpha channel which is the front layer separately than the back layer. Under format options. Not all of these work with a transparent background so H 264 won't work but animation or pro res will work so I can choose pro rez and then click Ok then. Okay, you can play around some animation is a really large file size. So pro res will be a lower file size but still a great quality. Now let's change the output to and just call this transparent so we know what we're working with click save and then render it out. ...
Now, once it renders out we'll see that when we play this at least on a Mac. I'm just pressing space bar to play it. You can already see that the background has this kind of transparency versus the lower third. Here is the lower third transparent. So that's what we want. Now, if we go back to that premiere Pro project file and bring in this lower third and then drag this onto our video clip. We can see that now. It has a transparent background so I can put this over our video clip and this is perfect because if I want a lower third and I want to use it over and over and over for all of my videos then I can export it and save it and reuse it. There's another way that we can bring in any sort of transparent composition or really any composition into premiere Pro. And that's using adobe dynamic link, which is this sort of automatic process that happens in the background where you can use multiple adobe products at the same time. So say I find my lower third composition in our project window. What I could literally do is choose this, click it and drag it and I'm still holding it down and then tab over to premiere Pro and to tab on a Mac. It's command tab. So I believe on a pc, it would be something like control tab. And then I dropped this composition. I still have it. I'm clicking it and I drop it into our project and look at that. We have this composition. It's an After effects project composition inside our office, this project. And if I take this now I can put this on top of any video clip. And the cool thing about this is that it's a live project. So say I make some change in after effects. So let me go to the lower third and change the name. Maybe I want to I have my middle initial which is john if anyone is curious and then if I go back to premiere Pro, whoa look at that, it automatically changes. So this is great for lower thirds. It's great for any sort of titles. It's great for any sort of animation in after effects when you're working together with premiere Pro. And as I've mentioned before, I really believe After effects is a great program for building out complicated graphics but not editing an entire video. That's what I use premiere Pro for. So that's how you can export your project with a transparent background and also how you can use after effects compositions in a premiere Pro project. This doesn't work with other programs, like if you're using another video editor, but it does if you're using working with adobe, premiere Pro. So I hope you enjoyed this lesson. And if you have any questions, let me know otherwise we'll see you in another lesson.
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