HOW TO EXPORT TRANSPARENT GIF FROM AFTER EFFECTS

Discover how to easily export GIF files with a transparent background from After Effects. Unfortunately, this is not natively supported by Adobe, so we need to use a workaround and export from After Effects to Adobe Photoshop, then to GIF.
Settings to use in After Effects: Apple Prores 4444 and RGB + Alpha.
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[@akydidthis]

Thank you! Very well shown and explained :)

[@JoyDreamer]

Awesome! Just what I needed! Thanks! :D

[@Poulposs]

Thank you so much. I was turning crazy trying to find tutorial on that precize point. You helped me so much

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Glad it helped!

[@DelvingDeeper]

Thanks dude. Pretty useful!

[@benjaminhurtigkarl1760]

Awesome, thanks!

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[@xCH4PPYxTubes]

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[@ThanhNguyen-zw2sr]

This is super helpful. Thank you so much! I'm having trouble with Gifgun plugin and I found your video. Thanks again! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Glad I could help!

[@tin_tinych5152]

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[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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Very Clean Tutorial, I love it!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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[@HIGH-FANTASY]

Bookmarked. You are a hero.

[@noamsh13]

thanks!! it was very helpful :') appreciate it

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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[@Lee-haw]

that's Super helpful many thanks

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[@dwi.permanaaa6515]

Big Thanks, this so simply

[@WasifKhanGD]

Really useful, by following through your video. I was able to crate custom looping animation for my Google slides presentation. It does really boost the visuals. Thank you so much!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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Man, great honest work that you linked the old tutorial to the new way with adobe encoder

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

That one still ranks high so figured it's the best way to boost this new one. Glad you found it useful!

[@Jimbo1221]

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[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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[@mycgtutor5845]

So helpful, thank you!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

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[@thetoastyfox]

This didn't import into PS correctly for me (using all of the latest versions) it played as a correct .mov from Preview but imported as just a shape. Also in After Effects I didn't have the rgb + alpha selection clickable until after I chose the 4444 option...

[@gooanimation]

Thank you!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Welcome!

[@mattiebrownoz]

You're awesome!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Thank you!

[@designdeity4425]

This is an amazing tutorial. Thank you very much for your help. (Adobe needs to make exporting out of After Effects a built in thing, jeez.)

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

I know, right? Thank you!

[@haxstat]

oK, THANKS A LOT BRO!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Did it work?

[@skluoew.1293]

thankyou!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Welcome!

[@visakhamproductions8985]

Thank you...!!! :)

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

No worries!

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We're all about diversity! ✨

[@thesinstar]

Any idea why it shifts the gif across to the right quite a bit once I bring it into photoshop?

[@mv8615]

Media Encoder 2022 finally features export as "animated GIF" with the option "Animated GIF with transparency".

[@angelbaby3342]

WHERE??

[@jl4630]

@@angelbaby3342 Hey, just checked. You have to update Media Encoder.

[@jl4630]

Thank you so much! As soon as I saw your comment I ran to update it😂

[@angelbaby3342]

@@jl4630 i updated it and I don’t see it 😭 When I looked it up There’s also no site that mentions that media encoder has this option

[@OhOkStudio]

@@angelbaby3342 make your format "animated gif" and choose the "Animated GIF with transparency" preset 🤩

[@DYLSBY]

ok so i am exporting a AE transparent video and then going into ps to make a gif... i have a new machine now etc and now all my gifs have that grainy dither and i am like what am i doing wrong??? can you please help? cheers

[@PopDemandVidz]

But like, your thing already had a transparent background to begin with... I can't figure out why AE won't let me have a comp with no bkgrd color... it's always white. When I toggle it to 'off', it still makes everything have a white background when exported. I even tried importing a transparent .png to start with... still exports white background... what am I doing wrong? :(

[@MarCorral1124]

hi videoplasty, what am i odin??? i cant import gif in my aftr effects????

[@ArumugamPalraj]

hey guys, i export from photoshop it can export HTML file not gif format so please explain how i can export as a gif and what is the problem

[@Mat_kerak]

tq2....

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

What does that mean?

[@quixed.]

how do I fix “could not complete this operation. An unknown error has occurred”

[@georgioskondylis8828]

hello, Thanks for the tutorial. I learned several things I didn't know and I'm definitely gonna try out. Unfortunately I have the following problem that I was hoping to solve with this one and couldn't. I want to create a HQ gif for a mobile app and photoshop won't do it (Unknown error or not enough memory). For this reason I was hoping to bypass photoshop. The GIF I want to create is 1676 * 3727px and lasts 6, 7 seconds with 25 fps. Any ideas about how to solve this would be highly appreciated!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Go to VideoPlasty.com and reach the Help Center (footer), open a ticket and say you're from KZbin looking for Eduard. Send a link to the video (in the exact dimension) and I'll have a look at it for you and try to convert it. Maybe for an app purpose it can be some other format too with better compression, GIF is ancient.

[@georgioskondylis8828]

@@VideoPlastyOfficial thanks a lot. I'll check out VideoPlasty Help Center if I don't find another solution. Very kind of you!

[@pedrolimadeoliveira9545]

Someone know what I have to do to able the option RGB + Alpha? I can do RGB or Alpha, but ins't possible both

[@buzzbadsville1548]

Hey, i hit the same problem - If you look under OPs "format option" he starts on ANIMATION. I had Apple Pro-Res, and didnt get the option for alpha + RGB. Changed it and got the option. Then changed it to Apple Pro Res 4444 as the video says in the next step.

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Did it work?

[@NikShaman]

use Apple Pro Res 4444 QX

[@petracoelho6212]

If you have a MacPro and when you go to photoshop it doesn't let you import the video file, go to creative cloud in the icon of photoshop click on the 3 dots and select "open intel version"

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Oops, I'm not on the M1/M2 so I didn't run into that issue, but thank you for sharing the solution!

[@KhanhNguyen-bm5jp]

Hi! can help me out here because I cannot find the open intel version anywhere. Thanks a lot.

[@Jonas-rs8zz]

@@KhanhNguyen-bm5jp When u click on the dots it will show "other versions" just click on that and it will show u all available Photoshop versions. Intel based versions are all versions from 22.2 and older so just install one of those.

[@KhanhNguyen-bm5jp]

Yes I haven’t installed at that time so cannot see. Thank you so much again.

[@dipintodiblue]

to me with intel work only if I import the video with the background, without it says that the file can't be read, I don't know how to do it >.

[@ArumugamPalraj]

for me i export from ps it takes html file i couldn't download that gif file so guys please explain why and how can export as a gif

[@johnravi1683]

Hi Eduard, It looks like a great video! My dear friend has recently started a job where he has to perform all of these creative tasks. I have been trying to find videos like this to share with him and help him settle easily. It was a great watch, I learned the process perfectly, and I hope it helps him too. Really looking forward to checking out more amazing videos like this in the future. I hope you keep sharing regularly.

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Happy to hear I could help! I wish your friend good luck with his new job!

[@hg393]

I have no idea why I'm having this issue but I hope you'll be able to help! In AE the file looks and works fine, but once rendered and imported into PS the file it completely blank. There are only 2 colours (1 technically) which is black and transparent. I've used this AE file before to export gifs with no issues so I'm unsure why this is happening. All I'm doing is changing the wavy word gif from orange to black!

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

You can send me the .mov file in ProRes 4444 and I'll have a look at it. I can't give you my email publicly here, but you can find it on the About page of this channel. It's our support email, just ask to reach Eduard and I'll check it

[@harripalin2016]

Did you find an answer for this? I'm having the same problem.

[@LaykaTheWuffinator]

I love you.

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Right back at you! ♥️

[@KINGPANTHERZ]

when i import this to my photo shop it says it will be limited to 500 frames

[@BluezConcepts]

I still get 'blurry' gifs when exported... :(

[@thoseriseofkingdomsadswith972]

Getting dynamic link error on Photoshop. I'm out of options and so frustrated. I don't understand how AE doesn't have a transparent GIF export when it costs 50 dollars a month.

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Last resort try exporting as ProRes 4444 with Alpha Channel and use ezgif.com to convert to transparent GIF

[@shrimpinpat]

Photoshop on Mac doesn't allow import of mov anymore

[@ianacevesmejia2772]

Do you know a workaround

[@henryrembert3943]

PS doesnt allow you to open MOV anymore

[@gordacapivara]

strange! I was able to drag it into PS, maybe one of the more recent updates has changed that?

[@taamyz15]

OMG when will adobe WAKE UP! hahaha thanks for the tutorial

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Yea it's been a while lol

[@jl6732]

my gif has white outlines, how to solve this?

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Try to use the matte option to optimise for any background that you use it against. Unfortunately, the GIF format is quite limited, it's latest update was in 1989 (check Wikipedia if you don't believe me)

[@user-ow2tv7oj7z]

@@VideoPlastyOfficial same issue facing

[@miguelramos1913]

I was about to fucking kill myself this shit was driving me crazy, thanks for the help bro 🙏

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

Thanks mate, glad I could help!

[@74nz1l]

its funny how fast my 9y old pc is than your mac XD

[@KINGPANTHERZ]

when i import this to my photo shop it says it will be limited to 500 frames

[@VideoPlastyOfficial]

I guess that's the limit then. At 25 frames per second that's a solid 20s animation. For GIFs anything longer than that the filesize will likely be HUGE

[@KINGPANTHERZ]

@@VideoPlastyOfficial I used 60fps clip btw