From: "Lachlan Westfall" Received: from atl4mhob14.myregisteredsite.com ([209.17.115.52] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5499564 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:40:37 +0200 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.71.205]) by atl4mhob14.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s5BNeaY7023400 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:40:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 18632 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jun 2014 23:40:35 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 75.82.194.125 X-Authenticated-UID: lachlan@quietearth.net Received: from unknown (HELO Luckys-Octo.local) (lachlan@quietearth.net@75.82.194.125) by 0 with ESMTPA; 11 Jun 2014 23:40:35 -0000 Message-ID: <5398E8ED.3070606@quietearth.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:40:29 -0700 User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.11 (Macintosh/20140602) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: AE into AVID with Alpha help Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040307010402010900020800" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040307010402010900020800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey folks, I'm sending lower 3rd and titles to folks who are importing in an Avid. I was sending Lossless with PreMultiplied alpha, then I found out that Avid prefers a Straight alpha, but switching has not seemed to have solved the problem on their end. They sent me back a composited clip and it's like the edges are way too clean. It's like there's NO anti-aliasing. I took my comp and put it on top of their footage in AE and it was nice and smooth. I don't know what else I can do other than send them Straight or PreMultiplied alphas. Could this be something I'm doing wrong on export? or, as I suspect, could this be an issue with how they are importing the Alpha? Any help is much appreciated! -Lachlan Westfall Quiet Earth Design --------------040307010402010900020800 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey folks,

I'm sending lower 3rd and titles to folks who are importing in an Avid.

I was sending Lossless with PreMultiplied alpha, then I found out that Avid prefers a Straight alpha, but switching has not seemed to have solved the problem on their end.

They sent me back a composited clip and it's like the edges are way too clean. It's like there's NO anti-aliasing.

I took my comp and put it on top of their footage in AE and it was nice and smooth.

I don't know what else I can do other than send them Straight or PreMultiplied alphas.

Could this be something I'm doing wrong on export? or, as I suspect, could this be an issue with how they are importing the Alpha?

Any help is much appreciated!

-Lachlan Westfall
Quiet Earth Design  
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