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Tutorials on importing and working with movies with alpha channels?

Hello,

I have upgraded to 5.5 and enjoying all the new features. I'm diving right in and trying to figure out if it's possible for me to import movies that have had the background of a subject rotoscoped out to transparency and rendered with RGB and

Transparent Layers and Alpha Compositing

Studio Artist lets you turn on or off alpha compositing in the Canvas View.

Note that this is very different then other programs like photoshop, where alpha compositing is always on.

Studio Artist layers are composed of a RGBA raster image buffer (an

Paint Synth Image Nib Questions

I'm starting this thread to answer a few questions a user recently asked me about the paint synthesizer.

Question: Please how do i setup the paint synthesizer correctly or what specific parameters should i change in order to have smooth brush nib ed

RENDER IMAGE SEQUENCE WITH ALPHA

Hi, we're creating stylized cinematic sequences for AAA games here at Blackbird Interactive and we just bought a few licences of Studio Artist 5 to use in our pipeline, however we have hit a major snag that has stopped us in our tracks: 

We need to l

"Alpha Only" brush?

I'm trying to figure out how to configure a brush that affects only the alpha channel and acts as an alpha channel eraser, but I haven't been able to figure it out.  Any suggestions?

An interesting Alpha issue (I think)

I have a little problem with setting up a file and getting my Presets to work to get a consistent result.

I am attaching some Presets and two sessions and some screen grabs to illustrate what I am encountering.

I am trying to make a multi Layer fil

Splatter Brush with Alpha Mask

There's been some discussion recently about generating splatter paint effects using image or movie brushes. With the goal of doing this with lighting effects build into the paint.

Here's an example of a splatter image generated by Bernard that incorp

Rotoscoping Questions

I'm looking for detailed tutorials on two subjects.

What I'm trying to do is either auto or manual rotoscope film clips of dancers in front of a green screen. I'd like to then change the backgrounds to another movie, photo or painting.

I know how to

Passing Through a Source Movie Alpha Channel

A support question came up today about how does one configure Studio Artist to pass through a source movie's embedded alpha channel to a Studio Artist rendered output movie. So the rendered output movie file would have the exact same embedded alpha c

Photo Mosaic movie brush question

So I've a photo mosaic movie brush that I've created and I'm not getting the result I want.  I have an image with alpha that I'm using as a source image (well, its a movie actually but it has alpha.)

This is what the image looks like: 

Anyways, I

Alpha question

Hey All,

sessions and layers

hey folks,

canvas and layer images

John

Recording a movie with an alpha channel

... doesn't seem to work the way I'm used to. I want to record a movie that I will superimpose on top of another one. I tried the same thing I did with SA 3 and it doesn't seem to work: In preferences, I set "Movie > Embedded Alpha" to "Layer Alpha"

how to region select/maintain an alpha channel?

Hello, I'm a little rusty with sa, and I've been trying to figure a couple of things out....I'm pretty sure they are relatively simple. I've created a bunch of free-flowing particle line effects in maya, exported out as tiff (or is targa better?), b

Alpha Layers

Hey gang! Got a few hours yesterday to experiment with SA yesterday and decided to try using layers with alpha in one of my paintings. Ran into a problem I couldn't figure out. First the set up: In photoshop, I took a photo of someone standing in f