I’ve chosen 32 bit, and it worked flawlessly.
PNG supports transparency, but from what I understand only at higher bit depths. In the top right corner, select your Container at the top (I’m choosing Quicktime), and further down under Video, choose your Codec (I’m using PNG). This will bring up our trusty media encoding options. With your sequence selected, head over to File – Export – Media. AVI only exists on Windows, but my old friend the PNG codec is available to pretty much all of us. If you’re using Premiere CC 2018 on a Mac, you should be able to choose it. ProRes is not available on every machine, not even on my Mac – but that’s probably because my outdated version of Premiere does not support it. Quicktime with MP4 or H264 for example are not good choices, because they don’t give us the option to preserve the alpha channel (even though Premiere has created one).Ĭodecs that do a good job are Apple’s ProRes, PNG or AVI (without compression). The next step is rendering our sequence, respecting the Alpha Channel. Everything that’s black in my preview window will be replaced by other footage, except for the logo and the strap, which are knocked out by the mask. Make sure some space is showing around your footage, like in the example below. Standard video footage won’t do the trick, but creating a title or importing an image on top of other footage should work. The trick is to create a timeline that actually contains some alpha-able effects (if that is actually a word). Since I never had to do that before, I asked myself: How do we render a clip with an alpha channel in Premiere?Īfter careful research, combined with some tireless trial and error, I found the solution to this puzzle – and here’s how to do it. That way a mask is automatically created, letting other programmes crop out everything around the titles. I had a vision for some animations, and rather than spend several hundred dollars on pre-made snazzy clips, I thought I’d take on the task myself.įor those to be usable on top of other video footage in my screen casting software (Camtasia Studio 3), I needed the animations to be rendered out with an Alpha Channel.
I made some new lower-third captions for my YouTube channel in Premiere the other day.
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