Exporting an Animated Object without Background

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That1GuyAgain
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Exporting an Animated Object without Background

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I’m sorry if this is covered somewhere. I’m probably just wording it wrong.
I lined up an animation of a sign growing between my hands and then being crumpled up. I can’t get good quality of original live footage through AS, so I want to export the animated sign only, and then edit it into the live footage through another software. I swear I’ve done it before, but I can’t get rid of the BG color. How can I export just that layer (the sign) and have everything else be in alpha?
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Re: Exporting an Animated Object without Background

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Hopefully this will help:

AVI: uncompressed / do not premultiply alpha channel
QT: uncompressed / do not premultiply alpha channel / millions of colors + <<< nb the +
PNG sequence: (just export)
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Re: Exporting an Animated Object without Background

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or in QT use the PNG codec with millions+ colours.
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Re: Exporting an Animated Object without Background

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Thank you for the reply. It was the "do not multiply alpha channel" that got me. I looked at that box and thought, "No, that's the opposite of what I want."
thanks again
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