Hi,

I own Vue 5 Infinite.  I am creating an ocean storm animation but ma not able to really get the sky I want.  Is there any way to just remove the sky (make it transparent) from my Vue 5 animation so that I can bring my animation into After Effects and composite a sky there using Aurora Sky?

I am not sure about Vue 5 (anymore). Have you checked to save your animation as png or tif sequence with embedded transparency? This should do what you want.

Otherwise, render masks with the animation and mask the sky out then in AE.

I typically render my animations as image sequences (png or tif), but if I have a sky in the scene, then it is still not transparent.  How can I create a scene with a transparent sky?

Why not use an alpha plane with the sky you want? Thomas Krahn has a great tutorial on how to do this: http://www.thomaskrahn.com/Tutorials.How_to_use_photos_for_skies.htm
Or use a massive alpha plane that is a 'blue' or 'green' screen?

You can't create a transparent sky, but what you can do, is save the global alpha render and use it to mask out the sky in AE.

Well...I don't know how this happened, but I just rendered a few seconds of my animation (a scene containing moving waves, a mountain and a sky) as a png image sequence and the sky is transparent! (when I opened it and played it in After Effects)

Cool!
Now how did you do it? Did you check "embedded transparency in your png options?