Compsure and sequencer sometimes outputting alpha channel and sometimes not

Hi,

I’m trying to render an EXR sequence of a group of actors using Composure and it works for the majority of the sequence, but random frames aren’t exported with an alpha channel, causing background flickering when I import the sequence into After Effects:

example of a good EXR with alpha:

312257-main-stageactorpass0000.png

example of a bad EXR without alpha:

312258-main-stageactorpass0195.png

The gradient is from a sky blueprint in the level, and I can’t turn it off because I need the lighting. I have all of the right actors on their own layer, and then add the layer to “Capture Actors” in cg_element1 to make sure I’m only capturing the stuff I want, but somehow the alpha channel just goes missing on random frames. Even when opening the suspect EXR files in photoshop the Alpha channel is missing.

Has anyone experienced this? Is there a setting I’m missing a known work-around?

Thanks so much