MOV with Alpha file fix for Templates in After Effects | by kristoffe
Channel: K. Brodeur
Date: 28/03/2022

Many templates made for after effects have been rendered almost completely useless for those of us with CC2018 After Effects and Premiere. Transparent MOV files with ALPHA are no longer "supported" with CC after 2017. The answer? Conversion.

So rocketstock and shutterstock should re-render all of these templates and sell them accordingly.

What you want to do is download CC 2017's version of Media Encoder from the cloud or if you have it already run it. In the settings, you can choose QUICKTIME as the first setting, or wrapper, than then CUSTOM in the next GUI setting, and PNG as the codec (algorithm process) and "8-bit + alpha".

You can then output to a new folder, and keep the same name, or in the settings of Media Encoder ask it to increment the file with "_1" in the the file name so there's [circle.mov] and [circle_1.mov].

Check one of your files and see if it imports, and it will. 

A longer process is to have your template kit, find "*.mov" in explorer or finder (os x) and drag all of them into the GUI of Media Encoder. Then choose one of those files (424 in this example) and then do a setting which affects them all. Outputting can be:

AUTO-RENAMING WITH MEDIA ENCODER 
Edit - Preferences - General
-----Output [X] Increment output file name if the file with same name exists.

Same folder "_1" appended, then you can use NAMEWIZ in windows, and delete the _1 in all files in all subfolders that you rendered (aka make a folder structure that just holds all those MOV files by copy-paste to a new folder renamed so you remember "folder" and "folder_new" etc. remove all of the other files that are not mov files.

Or simply let all of the files render into a "_render" folder, and uncheck mark the rename choice in the settings for the files in the GUI and move them by hand overwriting in the "new" folder.

Good luck. It should work on all older MOV files with alpha that won't import (CC Media encoder 2017 is your go to for this, remember) and cc2018, cc2019, cc2020, cc2021, cc2022 After Effects and Premiere all allow these new QUICKTIME (PNG 8-bit with ALPHA) to now import or drop in etc.

Namewiz (30 day trial)
http://softbytelabs.com/wp/namewiz/

Rocketstock 400+ HUD Elements
https://www.rocketstock.com/video-packs/interface-hud-video-elements/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpT76HZkqY