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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Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

Lesson Info

93. Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

Lessons

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Understand the After Effects Workspace

Starting a New Composition

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

Working in the Timeline

Layer Properties

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Animating in After Effects

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Using the Graph Editor

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

Solution - Bouncing Ball

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

Playing with Time

Blend Modes

Stabilize Shaky Footage

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

Clean Lower Third

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

Colorful Transition

Text with Mask Path Animation

Text Bubble Animation

Weather App 1

Weather App 2

Weather App 3

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Flat Animation Challenge

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

Removing Green Screen Background

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Intro to 3D

Swinging 3D Text Animation

Build Out Your 3D Composition

Animating Our 3D Scene

Create Stars in After Effects

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Using the Rotoscope Tool

Cleaning Up Your Edges

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

Replacing a Screen Version 2

Screen Replacement with Mocha

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

Animating Your Puppet Pins

Animated Blinking Eyes

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Applying Text Animation Presets

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn