Apple Motion graphics in Vegas

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I want to make my graphics in Motion 3 and import them to Vegas 8 retaining the alpha channels. How should I export the Motion file?
 
Are you talking about a .avi file created by Apple Motion? I've had similar issues with other graphic utilities, and the main issues are:
- can the graphics utility write alpha info? if not, you're probably out of luck
- the .avi file needs to use a codec which holds alpha info (most don't), e.g. Lagarith lossless codec
 
Yeah, I didn't think so. What I've done before with simpler graphics is placed green in the bg and keyed it out on Vegas but I want more gradients and more motion and I don't think that technique will work so well.

I'll probably just render my video to an avi in Vegas and import the whole thing into motion.

Any opinions which of the two works better for compression to DVD? Does FCS2 output AC3 like Vegas does?
 
Didn't know that, David - I'd always had trouble with alpha channels until I recently read suggestions re the Lagarith codec and finally got alpha working. I'll have to try again with uncompressed avi...
 
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