Newbie Needs Help!

[user_deleted]

Hi all, looks like a good forum here and I've got a feeling I'll be frequenting it quite alot over the coming weeks.

I'm quite new to Shake and have just put together my first sequence but I'm having trouble. When I export the QT file to give to my editor it looks fine when I play it back using QT, but when it's imported to FCP the background JPEG disappears leaving just black, obviously transparent but I can't figure out why it won't display the JPEG. Any ideas? The JPEG is of clouds so not even a solid colour.

Secondly is there any way to display safety bars/frame? To ensure its 4:3 safe?

Thanks.

Adi

[user_deleted]

I don't know about displaying action/title safe overlays, if shake has them.

If you're rendering using the Animation codec Shake will always save an alpha channel even if you don't want it to or tell it not to. This is my guess as to what's happening.

In FCP, check the alpha channel status of the clip (right-click/ctrl-click on the clip name:item properties:format) - it's probably set to "straight". right click on the word straight and change it to "none"

Or render to a codec that doesn't have an alpha channel.

Without seeing your node tree I don't know why your comp with a solid background has an alpha channel. Even if I did see your project, I don't know if I'd be able to spot problems since I'm pretty new to Shake too.

[user_deleted]

You can activate your action/title safe by changing the viewer script. Its the second button to the right from the button that says "vlut off" (by default). It looks like a ladder. Right-click on it to load options for the overlay into one of the parameters tab.