3 Ways To Export Videos With A Transparent Background | After Effects & Premiere

In this video I show you every way to export a video with a transparent background!! ! If you want to support me, please support my amazing sponsor SQUARESPACE squarespace.com/willcarmack

[@russ7868]

Thank you! I have been trying to figure this out for my animations. I was exporting them with a green background and then keying it out. This helps a lot!

[@user-si8pn3wb5j]

After 3 days of stress and no way to finish my project u have just saved meee. Thank you sooo much.

[@Brandonbraun]

Thank you so much for showing the proper media encoder method!

[@MillennialsReppingCulture]

You sir are a blessing. Thank you

[@fireflymedia]

I transport lossless w/ a transparent bg from After Effects to Premiere, there's a makeshift way. It's not a way that Adobe intended, but it works. The blasted method took me about 40 painstaking/stubborn hours to figure out. Just moved to a new city two weeks back and am tied up in job hunting right now, so that's where my free time goes. But your great tutorial reminded me that as soon as time permits I should put up a tutorial on this ridiculous, though effective, method that I use. Thanks for sharing your effective methods as well!

[@Shotby100k]

Can you post a video of your method? Or what’s your Instagram so I can dm you?

[@avantimukherjee5709]

can you please share what you did? i am not able to open any videos created using quicktime. showing codecs errors. stuck.

[@stevejay4817]

Thank you so much for this. Seeing this from Ghana🇬🇭🇬🇭 ❤❤

[@realSwampCast]

took a while to find it, but your video was the only one with the right answer! thank you.

[@wypiko]

Thank you!!!

[@verbena33]

Thank you soooo muuuch!!

[@RicRags]

Cool! I find the file sizes for these formats are massive. Like 2 gig for a 20 second video. So is there a way to have a file size that would make sense?

[@4etoilesproductions]

Hi Will. What are the specs of your laptop ?

[@lamz1981]

can i send the videos to my phone and use it on capcut etc

[@gamapoko]

god bless , thanks a lot

[@vagasbundo]

The colors are different when I export it in ProRes 4444, less sat, less contrast. why is it doing that?

[@Oranggee]

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[@MDobri-sy1ce]

After, I watch one of Will’s videos can, I say, I have been ‘Carmacked?’

[@kunalbelamkar]

There isn't AVI in my AE, help!

[@tsuds33]

dude no matter how many times I try to render my twitch overlay with a transparent backround in the rbg+alpha it still renders with a black backround :( and my backround is a true transparent backround

[@edersolis5097]

Same

[@edersolis5097]

Wth!?

[@bytechno.1337]

same

[@anaanatejeda7107]

same

[@nooxb723]

dude does nobody have a fucjing solution for this yet holy shit

[@kebdo3387]

I dont have avi 😭 what to do ? I tried quicktime and its black layer

[@jreala256]

Same here 😢

[@AverageChangedTurbofan]

I might be late, but better late than never. The problem is probably with your video player. Try importing your stuff in Premiere Pro or wherever you need and see if it's actually transparent

[@Brandonbraun]

3:05 Media Encoder setting

[@jamiesouza]

juat did quicktime and it's not transparent...I don't know why this is so hard. None of thise worked. I still have a black background :(

[@willcarmack]

have to do quicktime & rgp + alpha

[@WackoMaza1]

Video Codec -> Apple ProRes 4444 and then RGB + Alpha

[@1andDONEson]

Even easier, you can just add a solid green layer below and that way, you can use any file type you prefer...

[@willcarmack]

no because then you have to put the keylight effect on that layer and its bad to stack heavy effects - so we do this to not have to use a green screen effect on our layers!!

[@willcarmack]

so best practice is to film something on a green screen, edit out the green in after effects / premiere and then export that as a transparent video - then start whatever animation you were using the green screen assets for! Saves so much time in the long run not having to constantly have keylight running on your layers

[@1andDONEson]

@@willcarmack All that is true my friend, but for mp4's it works for me

[@user-si8pn3wb5j]

You are a life saver. I have been working on a 140 green screen layers. Didnt kniw what to do

[@nooxb723]

lol why isn't any of this working for me

[@SanJ]

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[@gamingchannel-gh2wh]

HOW THE HELL U OPEN IT UP IN ADOBE MEDIUM ENCODER????? WHERES THE STEPS@