How To Export with Transparent Background in After Effects (Alpha Channel)

UPDATED VERSION FOR ANYONE GETTING A QUICKTIME PLAYER ERROR: • (UPDATED) How To Expor...
This video is all about how to render a transparent video in After Effects. It's a quick, simple tutorial for anyone who needs to export their project with a transparent background, or alpha channel, in order to use in other projects. Please show your support and join the community by subscribing to the channel!
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[@ShaunNotcutt]

Hey guys! If it doesn't work on newer version of After Effects, make sure you have selected Quicktime in the Format dropdown at the top, it should work from there 👍
If you are experiencing an error with QuickTime player that won't let you open your video: th-cam.com/video/0LYNhB_YeTE/w-d-xo.html 👍

[@jagabanpr7495]

Now this did work 🔥thank you

[@l.leonhardt3118]

I can export the video but can’t open the QuickTime file with QuickTime actually I can’t open the file at all

[@tonok_g8873]

got this working, thank you so much!

[@briannabrunson]

When I export and go to play the video it says The file isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player. Any help would be much appreciated- thank you!

[@yj2566]

@@briannabrunson same here!!

[@ChrisHalesDesign]

Appreciate the brevity! I clicked because the video length was 1:40 now I'm going to check out your other content. Thanks Shaun!

[@ShaunNotcutt]

Thank you appreciate that 🤘

[@MrVincTV]

Directly to the point, love it!

[@m1cs0w]

Thank you soooo much. Finally one TH-camr, who shows it correctly. Everyone show how to make confetti or stars blinking with black background. But not, how to make transparency for the using in davinci resolve.

[@matseddyjambon]

Short and simple, It helped a lot. Thank you!

[@ClintHowen]

Thank you for being quick and to the point :)

[@andrewbaffa]

This helped perfectly for the new outdo I am making for my school's athletic department. Thank you so much!

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Super quick and easy fix to a problem I was having. Thank you so much

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Thanks exactly what I needed, without any fluff

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Short And TO THE POINT
Thank You❤

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Absolutely Perfect! Thank you!

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love it. quick, short, simple.

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[@SevenBeatsmusic]

I was rendering huge .avi files for years, and now a simple format options > animation solved that haha. I liked and subscribed, thank you man, you rock!

[@ShaunNotcutt]

Amazing thanks so much!!

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Nice and simple! Peeerrrfect! =D thanks Shaun

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Super helpful, and very well explained, thank you bro.

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thanks quick help direct on point

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Loved the succinctness! Thanks for sharing :)

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This was very helpful. Thank you!

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Thank you so much, I always come back to this tutorial lol

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I had to subscribe because you made this so easy to follow! Thank you 💕

[@ShaunNotcutt]

Thanks so much! Appreciate that!

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thanks for the quick tutorial Shaun

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thank you so much for helping me out

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Awesome, short and useful.

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Just what I was looking for. Thank you :)

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Thanks! It was helpful

[@kasper369]

when your in middle of editing your in hurry so u need quick videos like this. Thankssss

[@ayoubvisuals]

thank you so much man

[@canorousdesign]

thank you for this (: just needed to know why i couldn't select RGB+Alpha bit & what i had to do to get it working. Cheers!

[@MadeoBoxing]

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL!!!

[@ShaunNotcutt]

Thanks!!

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THANKS MANE

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Thank you so much 🥰

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This is was simple - thank you!

[@ShaunNotcutt]

No prob! 😎

[@farhanislam2522]

thank you so much, i was not finding thr rgb+alpha
now solved

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Thank u very much Sir, biggest like

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Thanks a lot!

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Thanks man👏

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That was helpfull. Thanks!

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Thanks Man, after exporting the video file i tried things it doesn't work & finally thank you for the content 😜✌🏻

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Thank you very much.

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Thanks!

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Its works Bro, Thanks

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thanks man it helped a lot

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thank you bro!

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So helpful! Thank you for stopping me from pulling my hair out!

[@ShaunNotcutt]

Glad to help🤣

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Thank you!

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Awe, Thanks!

[@mcsteven1467]

Your way is work for me, thanks very much.❤❤
And I don't know why when export PNG sequence, there are not transparent bg.

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you save my life bro

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Thank you

[@superandoosdesafiospelagraca]

Boa tarde, sou do Brasil, eu Fiz o passo a passo, mas mesmo assim continua gravando sem a transparência e com a mesma cor da composição, sendo que a cor da composição na tela na hora de renderizar deixo como transparente. só uma observação, depois de feito a renderização, se usar no proprio after Effects ele reconhece a transparêcnia, mas pra usar no canva ou outro programa ele aparece sem transparência..você poderia me dar mais com alguma dica?

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Thank you so much

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Thanks man

[@The_Daliban]

Thank you!
Was struggling with the export where you set it to animation.
Oh man😅

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Legend ❤

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perfect...thnks

[@scottiebookman]

Anyone know how to export as a mp4 rather than mov and preserve the transparency? Quicktime won't open the mov file for me... and online conversion tools are rejecting it

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Thanks bro!

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thank yout for this video

[@ShaunNotcutt]

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[@sebastianshine4262]

Worked! Thanks a lot! I have a new problem though: its now an .mov file due to it being "quicktime". My adobe premiere cant render this for whatever reason. had that issue already a few days ago with other .mov files. Is there a solution to this? Or do I have to convert the files always before using them in premiere? That seems like some avoidable extra steps, or am I wrong?
PS: I just converted it to .mp4 again so I can actually use the file in premiere, but now I am back at the start again :(