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?
I cannot find the solution to this and I can't understand how no one else is having this problem (at least I haven't seen any other posts on this).
I render most all of my alphas out as DNxHDs. The alpha channel is showing as black in Premiere instead of transparent. I have played with the Modyfy>Interpret Footage to no avail. I have tried it on 4 different computers.
My alpha clips worked perfectly fine in CS5, but in CS6 the exact same project can't handle the alphas.
I need some help with this. I'm stuck even worse now since I can't go back to CS5 with my project since I've already worked in CS6. (Or is there a way to downgrade my project back to CS5?)
Any help would be greately appreciated. I'm supposed to render this out for a client today.
I just discovered that it DOES work using the Quicktime/Animation preset for rendering form AE, but it does NOT work with DNxHD. Hopefully this is the clue that one of you needs to piece it together for me. ???
I do NOT want to use animation since I already have hundreds of clips already done in DNxHD with alphas. It would be a nightmare to redo all those.
I have the latest DNxHD codecs I believe. 2.3.7.
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’.
You're right about that, Jim!
This is the kind of solution I was looking for!
Adobe, surely this could be incorporated into a quick patch update? I don't mind doing the work--it looks easy--but a 1kb update would be nice for everyone else who has been scratching their heads wondering what to do.
Either way, THANK YOU!
SteveHoeg wrote:
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’.
Well, I just got to trying this out and unfortunately it doesn't do anything. It's doign the same thing.
Here's the before and after pics of my XML file. I assuem I did it right.
The other two pics are of the exact same AE render with the alpha. The first one is using the QT/animation codec, the second is with the QT/DNxHD codec. Both work on CS5, but only the animation codec works in CS6.
Any other suggestions?
XML BEFORE:
XML AFTER
ANIMATION CODEC
DNXHD CODEC
Well, this works... sometimes. It's very strange that I change the XML file and things work for a while, but the next day when I start up the computer the XML file is changed back to the original settings. This happened after an update, which makes sense. But now it's happening without any updates, just on a computer restart.
Any ideas?
North America
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Asia Pacific