 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 tutorial and this one I'm gonna show you how to render footage with an alpha channel. Creating an alpha channel and rendering an alpha channel is very very easy. There's only one step that can send you off so let me just sort that out for you right here. The first thing you'll notice is I've got some footage and I dropped it into my timeline as we do. The second thing I've already done it but I'll show you and this is an example. When you do green screening you want to render with an alpha channel in almost all instances. That's why we've done this so I've added in a chroma key or ultra key to be exact and now we've got this stock footage of this lady making some weird gestures like come here you know okay lady uh sure I don't I don't get a lot of that but anyways jokes aside we've got her and now we want to render this. If we render this in standard format like using the h264 codec which is usually the most commonly it's the most commonly used one I think you're gonna get the black background with it but if we render it with the alpha channel you will not you will just get hurt and all the black stuff will not be there so here we go up to the top file you want to go to export media right there now I've already selected it but usually I well this is for me usually you're usually on h264 or some other uh codec that does not have an alpha channel by default what you want to do is instead of you want to click on format but instead of h264 or whatever you're set to automatically move down to quick time once you do that it'll probably select the top one here which is adobe stock 4k with audio which is an apple pro res and they're great but that's not what we want what we want is we want to click on the preset go down a little bit and then you're going to see apple pro res 4444 with alpha this is the one that I like to use however the gopro cineform rgb 12 bit with alpha is also an excellent choice so it's a matter of preference and file size but let's just go with this one for now we're going to click that and here's what happens now when we render this and we hit export she's going to come in with an alpha channel instead of just a no black background instead of the usual that is all there is to it guys thank you for watching this tutorial ton more stuff coming up stay tuned