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CS6 Doesn't See My Alphas Correctly

May 10, 2012 10:41 AM

When opening my CS5 projects in CS6, my video layers that have alphas now show black where it should be transparent. This is happening with several codecs and image sequences.

 

What's up?

 
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    May 10, 2012 11:27 AM   in reply to Toomany3

    What happens if you bring the same footage into a new CS6 project?

     

    Have you tried playing with the Alpha settings under Modify>Interpret Footage...?

     
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    May 16, 2012 4:20 PM   in reply to Toomany3

    Do you have a sample clip you could share?  I'm curious why it worked in previous versions but not now...  are these QT wrapped mov files, btw?

     

    Cheers

     
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    May 16, 2012 5:11 PM   in reply to Wil Renczes

    This is a known bug that we were unfortunately not able to address before shipping. For now if you would like a temporary workaround please open up:

     

    C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\MediaCoreQTCodecRulesCS6. xml
    /Users/{USER}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/MediaCoreQTCodecRulesCS6.xml 

     

    Then find the four lines containing ’AVdn’ that say decode. Change the decodefourcc at the end of the line from ’2vuy’ to ’argb’.

     
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    May 16, 2012 5:48 PM   in reply to SteveHoeg

    Change the decodefourcc at the end...

     

    Now that's a solution that really shows the benefit of having Adobe personnel invest time on these forums.  None of us users are likely to ever have suggested this.

     
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    Jul 6, 2012 1:27 PM   in reply to Toomany3

    Any other suggestions?

     

    Don't use QuickTime.  Create AVI files using Lagarith or UT codecs.  They're both free, lossless, and both support RGBA.

     
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    Jul 6, 2012 1:51 PM   in reply to Toomany3

    I had to just encode around 100 animations over again. Luckily I'm really good about keeping AE project files.

     
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