Good day to all of you I just got into Houdini and i can tell u know I'm loving it for dynamics of course I'm sure I've only scratch a small part of what this software package can do, but to the question at hand.

I have thoughts of using some of Houdini's tools to do some small effects and animations for a compositing class. So i need to know what my limitation are using Apprentice Ver. Will I be able to render out sequences with Alphas that i can composite into After Effects? I would rather not waist to much time make cool FX for not.


btw i have to use AE for this can't use Houdini's inside compositor.

Cheers

The only limitations are shown at this page [sidefx.com]. And if you don't mind that really little watermark, go for it !

If you want to render out sequences with an alpha channel just set an output file format that supports alpha, or render a separate alpha sequence.

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Good day to all of you I just got into Houdini and i can tell u know I'm loving it for dynamics of course I'm sure I've only scratch a small part of what this software package can do, but to the question at hand.

I have thoughts of using some of Houdini's tools to do some small effects and animations for a compositing class. So i need to know what my limitation are using Apprentice Ver. Will I be able to render out sequences with Alphas that i can composite into After Effects? I would rather not waist to much time make cool FX for not.


btw i have to use AE for this can't use Houdini's inside compositor.

Cheers

Render your images as a *.picnc format. This way you won't have any watermark whatsoever on it. Then you compose it in Halo and save result in format usable outside Houdini like png/tiff/etc.


cheers!