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Hi,
I've exported som files with logos and lower thirds as .mov proress44444 from FCPX. The meaning was to use them in the iPhone to speed up the workflow on the go. I could not get them to work in iMovie, so I bought the Lumafusion, but it does not seams to work here either. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any workaround or better way of doing this?
Thank you guys in advance for your answer in the matter.
Tobias

Apple’s iOS doesn’t support video with transparency; it’s a limitation of Apple’s hardware/software stack. So, you won’t be able to bring any video in with alpha channels. A workaround would be to render your video against a solid color and use the chroma-key that’s newly in LumaFusion, though it doesn’t handle partial transparency very well, so you may be limited in how you design the graphic elements.

One other thing to consider is that .PNG still files carry transparency (and partial transparency) just fine in iOS, so if your graphics aren’t moving in a way that you couldn’t animate in LumaFusion, you might just want to bring those elements in and animate them locally.

Now it does:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/506

I think procreate will also support it so maybe easier handwrited titles.

Not sure how/when something like premiere/Davinci will be able to export HEVC with alpha though

Interesting topic!

I was just creating a lower thirds animation in Apple Motion 5.5 but had no luck in exporting it correctly with alpha so that LumaFusion can handle it correctly.

From this page I learned that LumaFusion doesn’t support Apple ProRes videos so exporting from Motion in ProRes 4444 (which, apparently, supports transparency) is no option.

But even when exporting my Motion project (background set to transparent, exporting „Color + Alpha“) into HEVC (10 bit) the video had a black background instead of transparency in LumaFusion.

Anyone any tips here?

Thanks so much!

H265

https://luma-touch.com/wp-content/uploa ... -Guide.pdf

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Thanks, Dave. However, how does this relate to my problem?
My problem is that even a HEVC (H.265) exported file from Apple Motion with transparency doesn‘t import into LumaFusion with transparency.
I currently have no idea whether I create the file correctly, whether Apple Motion is at all able to export a correct H.265 file with transparency or whether LumaFusion can‘t correctly read the file. I suspect the former two points being the problem, not the latter.
Will investigate further.

Check if the following helps. It shows how to create animations with Alpha Channel in Apple Motion that can then be used in LumaFusion.

Thanks in7ermaster

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Thanks, in7ermaster. I commented under Pablo's YT video.
Compressor is another paid app and I wonder if I really have to spend another 55 Euros and why a correct export directly from Motion doesn't seem to be possible. I'm sure I'm missing something here. I *has* to be possible out of Motion directly because all the settings that say so are there. Maybe it's a bug in Motion ... I don't know, yet.

I was hoping for the same out of DaVinci Resolve but at the moment, Resolve does not support export of H.265 w/ transparency. I realize this is a different issue than with Motion but it's related in that I was trying to come up with an external mechanism for creating media with transparency that I could then use in LumaFusion.

To date, I am creating assets with a green background layer and using ChromaKey in LumaFusion but of course, this precludes having any color in the asset that has the same color as the background layer... I've put in a feature request to BMD for this...

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