How to Export Transparent Background Videos in Adobe After Effects CC Tutorial

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[@ChaunceyLuce]

An important thing to note if you find that RGB + Alpha is greyed out; most other video formats (such as h.264) cannot have transparent backgrounds. You'll need to switch to Quicktime as he has in the video in order to select RGB + Alpha

[@sebbyyz6833]

I knew i would find a comment down here explaining that.. Thanks man.

[@3D___Geek]

also change the format to animation

[@underratedfilmz8385]

thank you that worked!!

[@tylerleecapper]

legend! thank you!

[@samf5258]

ty sir

[@liorohayon8222]

Very important to make sure choosing in Format Option > Video codec "Animation" (for RGB + Alpha)

[@TheNixamania]

Thank you sir, can i ask why?

[@chai01724]

@@TheNixamania If its not, the "RGB+Alpha" button will be disabled and cannot be selected

[@Raidoven]

ah, thanks for this too man!

[@RokasTalzunas]

ty a lot my man!

[@risnandarmultimedia5296]

you save my life

[@TheSpeechlesskid]

Justin Odisho saving editors' lives since he started creating tutorials on KZbin. Haha. Thanks man!! 👌

[@marbananta]

I usually do it with effect -> channel -> blend and/or you can do it easily with VSDC, but this tutorial helps it to be simpler & easier. Thanks.

[@fabian.fm10]

Actually pretty simple but I never knew how this works. I always had a black background and used the ultra key effect from premiere pro to get a transparent background. It was a bit more complicated but it worked pretty well. So thanks for this nice video! 🙂

[@FlightHours]

THANK YOU dude. I’ve been struggling with this for a week and you solved it in 3m. Game changer.

[@ajthrowback928]

I’ve watched a few videos and read several comments on this topic, but this was BY FAR the simplest and most helpful explanation of all. Thank you so much for helping me solve my issue!

[@daanthijssen1748]

:) what a lovely comment

[@ajthrowback928]

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[@JustinOdisho]

Thanks

[@vegardpedersen]

Exactly what I needed, thanks!

[@al_wombat]

Very quick, nononsense tutorial straight to the point. Great, thank you, Justin!

[@ForgedByGames]

Dude your my go to guy. Everything I've need to know, you know where I got it? Oh that's right you. Lol. Thanks man!

[@JustJackVideo]

I literally can’t explain how many times I’ve looked for things and you’re the only person that explains it perfectly 💯 big up mann!

[@VintageVideos2009]

Justin, excellent instructions my friend. I had not completed an After Effect element in years, and with your help, I cranked it out in less than an hour!

[@NightcoreLabOfficial]

I was looking for something like this for a whileeeeee XD

[@alexmackz5113]

Me too! These tasks seem like simple things but they are techniques that can transform your video editing workflow

[@SnoopThePunk]

Me too ..honestlly,ived burnout lookin for it

[@FunDumb]

Every time I need to use this I've forgotten how I did it previously. Thanks for being that outstanding clutch resource! You'll be at a milly in not time.

[@HighSchoolLive]

Thank you so much for this help! Currently working on graphics for our broadcast production starting this fall for High School Football and this was a huge help when making sure we got the correct background!

[@CincyWong]

Nice work as always! When I first started using Ae this one of those trivial things that's so simple but drove me nuts until I figured it out. A ton of people are secretly thanking your right now!

[@sean.sullivan]

You kind of alluded to it for a hot second but I was curious how you do this exporting a transparency in media encoder?

[@user-xv7eb5ct9f]

did you figure this out ?

[@sean.sullivan]

@@user-xv7eb5ct9f yes, bringing into photoshop is the best way for any of these routes of doing this. Then make transparent gif in photoshop.

[@user-xv7eb5ct9f]

@@sean.sullivan I was making a 360 degree animation in after effects then I rendered it as QuickTime with alpha and brought it over to photoshop and it worked, but that video was over 200mb which made PS choke on me

[@himanshuchopra5969]

Quick tip for those who may not find it working as I did...I Usually create proxies for 4k footages through ingest settings...If that setting is "ON", don't let the media encoder create proxies for that particular AE file, otherwise, it will still show black background instead of transparent.

[@haydenroams]

You are the real hero here

[@avidrationalist7281]

Where to get that proxy settings??????????

[@pratikbabhulkar2295]

Time and again when I can't remember how to do this, I come to back to this video. Helpful and saves a lot of time. Thank you for making this Justin,appreciate it a lot.

[@BryceBetts]

Thanks! I just paired this tutorial with your tutorial on making a counting up and down slider for a project i'm working on and it helped a lot.

[@AdamSalehx]

Nice man!

[@MrFoodHunter]

why when I put it in filmora video editing, I didn't lose the background ??

[@ArgentaOfficial]

same here. think Its only works on adobe premier or after effect only,

[@JustinOdisho]

No it would be transparent anywhere just some programs don’t display transparency

[@roseproductions3417]

You have to put the file output as quicktime instead of amv or whatever you use, quicktime allows for transparency. He forgot to show that bc he already had it saved that way.

[@wukwinn]

@@roseproductions3417 I tried this. Still not transparent in Filmora.

[@Sapherzz]

Not sure if this would work for you, but for Sony Vegas and Movie Studio you have to right click the file in your project timeline, go to properties and then go to Media. There'll be an option under there called 'Alpha Channel' with a drop down option. Click that and select 'Premultiplied' and click okay. Now it should have removed the black background.

[@Toma.s]

I can't count how many times you've been useful to me at this point. Thank you for today and for the other millions of times.

[@JustinOdisho]

Thanks

[@facu_eze_peralta]

Love it! I knew how to do it but i enjoy your tutorials! ♥

[@jessepaauwe4990]

Exporting went well, but when i want to drag it in premiere it doesn't work? I thought it was because of an Quicktime file. Maby you or someone can tell me more? Thanks for the video

[@uBoxie]

I was having the same problem, the issue turned out to be that I set all my clips to be attached to proxies so anything I dragged into my media library would be generated as a proxy. Premiere was making a proxy of the transparent clip which gave it the black background. If you're using proxies just detach it from the after effects graphic! idk if this helps since you posted this a year ago lmao

[@deltacharliethree]

You literally saved me from throwing myself off the roof.

[@Twelve89]

Thanks Justin! This was just what I needed in a pinch. Used it to get my video out today. Needed to overlay an animation.

[@CraigMurleyElasticstudio]

SUPERB! Easy, clear and well presented. Thank you!

[@zacharyprescott1]

Show this in adobe encoder please

[@shoppinginlove1641]

hi!! thank you for this very simple tutorial. Unfortunately, it does not work for me. I followed exaclty all the steps but when I see the video is not on alpha channel . When I render, the prerender is on transparency but the video saved is always with the black video as background. Do you know if there could be any issue or setting I m missing? please help, I m getting crazy trying to figure out ow to export with trasparency.

[@sezzysgame2062]

I'm doing the exact steps too... not working for me either :(

[@TheGreatHighlights]

Thanks Man, i recently did some work in Adobe After Effects and i didn't have any idea on how to make it transparent. you've saved me in a million ways...👋👋👋👋💯💯💯👌👌👌👌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@SANJEEVKUMARGUPTA]

I did not need to select Format option and animation . format option set to 'none' and format set to AVI and ...... and hurrey....I got RGB+ Alpha . That's it

[@stixoimatizontas]

You are a life saver mate! Exporting MOV files through quicktime would keep the black background and was so frustrating. No such issue with AVI though! Again thanks so much 😁😁😁

[@TurboHeart]

been looking everywhere for this, thank you.

[@AxiA]

what about through media encoder????

Enybody find the answer with the media encoder?

[@euphoriabeatz8385]

@ dont put it through media encoder

[@borhat]

At the top of the Export Settings dialog, for the Format drop-down: QuickTime; for the Preset drop-down: Apple ProRes 4444 with Alpha.

[@MattMort]

@@euphoriabeatz8385 But what if we have multiple files? It would waste a lot of time to render each file individually

[@benjamin_bloom]

@@borhat This works! Thank you!

[@DarkToxa]

Thanks a lot, Justin! Always helping me with editing mysteries😊

[@MojaveGG]

you are one of the few channels in which I like the vid before even watching. Thank you for your excellent tutorials.

[@anthonymisiano256]

Fantastic video, straight to the point, helpful & accurate. Thank you, Justin.

[@daanthijssen1748]

What a lovely comment you make

[@Divineshot]

Wicked! Thank you.

[@AndrewSigwart]

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you Justin!

[@thatskysylvos]

I loved how quick and simple this was!

[@francocerruti1]

I tried rendering as "QuickTime animation" and as "QuickTime PNG", both with RGB + Alpha. I also tried with AVI and RGB + Alpha. When I paste my lyrics in Vegas Pro 13, they still have a black background. None of the 3 ways I made it work.

[@colorblindcreative4710]

same here

[@har_tomasz4038]

same

[@valentinaconte8626]

s@@har_tomasz4038 is the same for me

[@har_tomasz4038]

you need to change gif settings in your editing programme

[@Bagelbytezz]

Right click and go to the properties of the media then change alpha to unmatted or whatever you want. Should work

[@Theagames10]

Doing this does not work anymore in After Effects, we still need help with it!

[@funglam7395]

Snap! I have to export through the media encoder but can't see an alpha channel selection anywhere in there

[@zero_second_thoughts8766]

I did it yesterday exactly as explained in the vid, worked for me.

[@Arcessitor]

@@zero_second_thoughts8766 I also did it just now in AE 2021, still works.

[@Nitinsingh_sith]

I dnt know why but if i convert the file into webm my background layer appears but not in Avi format.

[@rachelb4775]

Thank you so much! Learning the basics of AE for the first time and your videos have been very helpful!

[@aaronworks]

Very simple! Just what I needed to know! Thanks!

[@JuliusUnique]

when I put it in SV or watch it on windows it still has it's background

[@hoangucthanh9323]

me too :((

[@MrDadZeeYT]

@@hoangucthanh9323 Same issue here, the transparency isnt transparent, its now plain black... i can't drag it into my OBS scenes. I dont have background colors either in my animation

[@Raidoven]

THANK YOU! Now i dont have to export the whole thing into AE hahaha

[@MicahFoster]

Thank you. I'm an AE newb and was struggling for a simple explanation of this exact thing.

[@MiracleWhit]

This video was a great help! I needed this tutorial for more ways to grow my channel. Thank you so much!

[@dyvon]

I don't know why but it's still not coming up with a transparent background when i play the video. it's still black. i'm following step by step. idk

[@xblackless283]

same for me, did you figure out why?

[@SeyriSamet]

@@xblackless283 Same

[@LegendsThrawn]

So my issue is, I do EXACTLY this but yet I still get a black background and there is ZERO background solid :/ all of a sudden idk why its not working

[@SmartPrince8880YT]

Same!

[@nataliechow8155]

@@SmartPrince8880YT Same!

[@DrTomo]

If you were to have media encoder (or if after effects has this option as well) check if there's an option called "Include Alpha Channel" make sure to mark it, that option "includes" the transparency of that video footage. If that doesn't work it might be because you either need to change the video format or because your editing tool program doesn't support transparency files.

[@SiBaroni]

Thanks man - exactly what I needed nice and concise. Much appreciated

[@RoyKerckhoffsArt]

Awesome. Totally needed this.

[@regaz4168]

Even if I put RGB + Alpha, it makes the background black

[@XavierLeong]

Same for me :/

[@odin9400]

@@XavierLeong you need to check "Toggle transparency Grid " button

[@XavierLeong]

Gorgo7 I was being dumb, I got it to work but thank you!

[@XavierLeong]

@KohMotion I was just being impatient and it was not showing up in Quicktime when I watched back but once I entered it into Final Cut and laid it over actual footage it worked

[@enfuegomane]

I managed to find it, when you select Quicktime, select "Format options" on the bottom right. Then select: "Render Alpha Channel only". Then render it. Should turn out perfect :)

[@vassisvintage]

its still not transparent when i open it up in my editing program

[@azornah]

I have the same thing... it does not work when you try to edit it in sony vegas

[@neotecnologia]

@@azornah YOU MUST to select Quicktime Codec Format set it to Animation

[@FuriousStylezOfficial]

@@neotecnologia I did everything and it is still not transparent. Set animation, RGB + Alpha, Animation etc. Still black background

[@JerryGuardado]

i used to export my projects with the black background and then on premiere pro i use the ultra effect to remove the background, THIS IS AMAZING , THKS BRO!

[@lushinjilo]

It's the simplicity for me. Thanks Justin, really.

[@InfamousJackk]

YOU DIDNT SHOW US HOW TO DO IT IN MEDIA ENCODER!!

[@letspes2352]

Install AfterCodecs plugin.

[@kuangjuitsou1699]

Tutorial didn't start until 1:20 File->Export->Render Queue Output Module: Channel (dropbox) -> RGB+ALPHA

[@JustinOdisho]

But what about the nice warm greeting you get at the beginning

[@FinalHarps]

i agree but he also at least explains it step by step and quickly most other guides didn't help and were more then 5 mins. but your run down wuld help but as for me i am totaly new to all of Adobe and listening to everything help out.

[@calebstrong1945]

@@JustinOdisho WE DONT HAVE TIME FOR ANYTHING GET RIGHT TO THE POINT

[@AlexAugustinex]

You could just skip ahead and say thanks for teaching you stuff for free, instead of being mean.

[@mogulfilmz]

​@@calebstrong1945 he takes PRECIOUS time out of HIS day to help US out, the least you can do is not complain love u justin

[@hexnerve]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! i spent like an hour of my life trying to do it myself...

[@SacksOfWine]

Thank you so much, you're doing great things for the community.

[@espedale]

Super helpful and you got right to the point. Thank you!

[@victorpaul7990]

I have a question: How wold you go about this process if you want to add some effects to a file that you have in raw but you want to color grade it in davinci resolve?

[@globalaccessories8086]

Thank You so much for this.. was getting mad by trying various other things but couldn't find any option. This completely helped bro!

[@keithmatthews5307]

Dude, awesome tutorial. You just got a new subscriber!

[@statsexplorer9719]

Exactly what I needed for my projects, thanks!

[@Rob-fi2pe]

Quick and to the point. Thanks man!

[@inspireyourself7049]

This was a great video! Like many others have said, very inuitive for us beginners. You have yourself a new follower!

[@PhotoMe99]

thank you! great as always

[@OscarUnderdog]

Helpful, thanks!

[@dayofthehippo]

Thank you... been trying to figure this out for a min:)

[@ShylilyClips]

Straight to the point, awesome. Thanks !

[@il0vegame890]

Thanks mate for great tutorial🙏

[@THEPAPERBOYZRUNLS]

Thanks you!!! Been tryin to figure this out for an hour now

[@jonathanwamble9340]

Thanks dude! Exactly what I needed!

[@ParkwayProduction]

Thank you, it helped me as a starter in after effects big time

[@Euclidean3141]

This helped me with my first transparent video, thank you :)

[@MarcoDigueti]

Simple and accurate!! Saved my day!! Thanks bro!

[@shivamkak7981]

justin odisho fr always has tutorials for what we need to know

[@gonzo_villasmil]

Thank you so much Justin. Super helpful and informative

[@touragrapher]

Thank you Justin, this helped.

[@vaughngaminghd]

Thanks Justin, simple and to the point!

[@jeffeisley]

Straight to the point, solid video.

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Life saver, what a legend, show stopping, incredible, never been done before, outstanding, greatest of all time.

[@lucas_moor]

Ur the best!!! You earned my sub!

[@touchlinecreative3429]

MY MAN! This video made me shout with happiness after solving my problem!! You've gained a subscriber sir!

[@russelwagner3195]

Awesome, exactly what I needed, thank you

[@ben10reviews008]

Thanks Justin, this was so helpful

[@hilmanrfd]

thanks man, this is quick and easy to understand!

[@FeedbackWrench]

Always awesome my man!!!!

[@dwightgjr]

Very helpful and straight to the point, thank you!

[@HowdytoonsExtreme]

Thanks this totally worked for me!

[@StreetCrop]

Thanks, that worked like charm!

[@SipitTV]

Thank you for creating these kind of videos!

[@rehman24fps]

created some AE compostions but couldnt use it without the black bg. Thanks man, this is the tutorial i have been looking for! XO

[@luisburgado]

Great Lesson! Quick, easy and to the point

[@AdventureMuse]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

[@harleyhanden69]

thank you! this was super helpful and so easy to understand :)

[@orlundoexplainsai]

Nice! Thank you for this!

[@MillennialDaddyPH]

You're the best, buddy! Cheers!

[@lramey20]

Super helpful, thank you!