Adding a background using AE

[VicZA]

Hi Guys,

I do a little bit of animation using 3dsmax and I was recently told not to use 3dsmax as the render to footage tool but to rather render to PNG and then use AE to compose the clip - that way getting more control over your final product ... which I can understand.

However, when I render to PNG the background sometimes is blank and gets rendered as invisible in PNG format - which is fine because the files are smaller.

- is it possible to add a solid color background to my composition in AE, that way eliminating that area getting rendered as BLACk in the .mov format?

(see image below)

Thanks
Vic

[amigo]

Of course, Add a new solid.

Layer -> New -> Solid

or Ctr + Y

And make that solid whatever color you want.

Put it under your .png file, and your done.