I have two poser questions for a walk designer animation. I have an animation setup that is 280 frames long of a man running along a PATH. It looks great, but I want the Video to have an alpha channel and I don't want the path rendered : 1) how do I render the alpha channel so when I bring it into a NLE program, it will be there. Do I need to use a certain codec? Is there a way to do this in the animation settings? 2) How do I get rid of the PATH so it doesn't render out also? I found it strange that the path would render out because I can't imagine who would want it in the final render? I just want the run without the PATH to be rendered, how is this done. Thanks!

Ok thanks for the path info, that worked - but when you render out uncompressed, where does it give you the ability to change the million colour depth?

opps thats my mistake, you need to render as tif images to get the alpha channel.

hmmm, my walk path never renders. Are you rendering to "current render settings" or "Current Display Settings?"

IMO it is always advisable to render out to individual lossless (PNG, TIFF) frames and assemble in a video program, even a simple free one like VirtualDub or QuicktimePro (my choice, $29.95). Many reasons.

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Message edited on: 03/27/2005 20:23

The Huffyuv codec has alpha-channel support, although you'll need to enable it in the configuration dialogue, as it's disabled by default.

You'd also need to enable "Always suggest RGB format" to use this codec in Poser.

I'd render as .pngs