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I am trying to render an animation in cycles without the background. However, every time I have it render, the background still shows up.

I used the compositor to add a background image so I can animate the object around the background. I set the output to RGBA and set the film to transparent.

Now I want to use it in After effects and I simply want to export/render it without the background and make it transparent. How do I do that?

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  • $\begingroup$ I'm not sure what you are asking.. Are you asking how to setup the composite nodes so there is no background image, only transparency? $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 21:45
  • $\begingroup$ I want to know if it is possible to have a background image but have it transparent when doing a render pass $\endgroup$
    – user2883800
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 22:05
  • $\begingroup$ You mean have the color information, but completely transparent? $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 22:19
  • $\begingroup$ vimeo.com/71859089, around 6:00. he has the background but he renders it in a way that the photo is not there and is transparent or empty. The problem is all the tutorials like these use internal render $\endgroup$
    – user2883800
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 22:41

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I'm not sure what you want, but if I understand correctly, you can make the background image color information remain in the image while still making it completely transparent.

This can be done with the Set alpha node, with an Alpha of 0:

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However, in the video you linked to the scene is rendered without any information about the background image at all.

Here is a setup that will do this:

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  • $\begingroup$ When I render I don't want the background image. $\endgroup$
    – user2883800
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 23:06
  • $\begingroup$ @user2883800 How's this? $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 23:14
  • $\begingroup$ When I render it the background is all white except the objects $\endgroup$
    – user2883800
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 23:28
  • $\begingroup$ @user2883800 Hmm.. Is Transparent still enabled in Render > Film? Is the ColorRamp stop set to transparent? If those are correct, could you upload the .blend? $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 23:40
  • $\begingroup$ nevermind it works now, I didn't make the colorRamp transparent $\endgroup$
    – user2883800
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 3:32
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You can render an image with a transparent background without compositing.

For cycles you enable a transparent background in the Film panel -

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The same result can be achieved in Blender internal under Shading by choosing transparent instead of Sky for Alpha -

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  • $\begingroup$ The OP already enabled Transparent (from the question: "I set the output to RGBA and set the film to transparent"), I think he/she wants to know how to include the shadows from the other renderlayer shown in the screenshot. $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 5:22
  • $\begingroup$ Yes for BI this will give you what you want as you can set shadow only for material but cycles you have to composite shadows. $\endgroup$
    – sambler
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 5:33
  • $\begingroup$ Right. Then if I understand it, this answer does not answer the question? $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 5:35
  • $\begingroup$ I found a video that solve the problem but part of the solution was making the color in ColorRamp transparent. $\endgroup$
    – user2883800
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 16:27

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