#PAR No Alpha Prob
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Is there anyway around the fact that the par strips away the alpha channel? Or
should I content myself with keeping all my tga's on my regular harddrive until
they have been composited ? The reason I ask is becouse keying in on a color
for matting isn't cutting it. I don't think there is a way of adding a alpha
channel after it's gone but a work around could be profitable for someone hint
hint. -=Mike=- Maritime Graphics
I use the PAR and can tell you that in converts from 32 bit
(alpha) TGA to 24 bit TGA's so you lose your keying information
A better solution that keeping the entire image on your disk would
be to save the MATT information. This should be much smaller
then keeping the entire image on your main drive..
Bob from The Design Shop..
Thanks for the info, now if I can figure out how to make my 24 bit tga work
with a 8 bit chroma key in Razor I should have a workable solution. Shouldn't
be to difficult. Thanks again,-=Mike=-
Mike:
Seems like Bob answered your question for me! Thanks, Bob!
All I would add is that the mattes can be combined into a flic file (they're
only 256 gray shades anyway) to make them even smaller. Or put them on the PAR
as a second animation after the first is out there!
Greg Pyros
>> mattes can be combined into a flic file <<
That's a good idea, Thanks for the info. -=Mike=-
mike
you could also render with alpha split turned on – the frames will show up on
your hard drive as your selected filename (example – file0000.tga) and the
alpha will be saved as filename with "a-" infront of the name replacing the
first two letters (example a-le0000.tga) both have there own number sequnces
and the alpha channel keeps the original quality – now use something to choose
you files uniquely- i just use windows file manager or par software's wildcard
select to search my directory with both file0000.tga & a-le000.tga's with a
wild card using the first four letters (a-le*.tga) – once selects all my alpha
images are selected i import to the PAR as an .ani called alpha and import the
24bit frames and bring both into RAZORPRO locking the alpha channel .ANI as a
mattte for the animation – works very well for composition work the alpha
channel .ani can also be quickly converted to a flic by either using an IFL
list in 3dStudio and video post – set renedered ouput to *.flc format or simply
bring only the alpha .ani into RAZOR PRO and setting final output settings to
*.flc or *.fli format….
Hope this
helps
Steve
Dupuis
Motion
Maker Inc
Thanks for taking the time to make a through reply, it is exactly what I was
wanting to know about. I'm going to study this right away and let you know if I
understand it or not . The one part that I'm not sure I undrstand is
selecting the alpha and the 24 bit and dropping them into Razor. I guess what I
don't know how to do is "locking the alpha channel .ani as a matte for the
animation. Thanks again, hope you don't mind if I ask for help again, -=MIKE=-
Mike:
>> >> mattes can be combined into a flic file <<
>> That's a good idea, Thanks for the info.
Anytime! This saved us a bunch of time on a project here, hope it does the
same for you!
Greg Pyros