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100% opaque layer is still not quite opaque
I have a number of layers that consist of simple JPG images. The only processing/filters applied to them are cropping. They are all set to 100% opaque, Normal blend mode. Yet wherever they overlap in the z axis, they are all still a little bit transparent, maybe 90% opaque. I need them to be 100% opaque, is there an additional opacity setting hiding somewhere? Does my camera have xray vision?
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if your pics include an alpha channel then i would check that the alpha is at 100%.
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Interesting. I’m not even sure how I would go about checking that? The jpgs were created in Photoshop as pretty simple backgrounds and text, then exported using Save for Web. There aren’t any options for adding alpha channels on that screen.
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you could try Boris Continuum Key and Blend trial version and apply BCC Matte Choker to your pics and see if that helps. it’s what i use.
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I played with this a bit, but didn’t know what the heck I was doing. Could I trouble you for a bit more info on which of its controls you used, and how?
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There is no such thing as an alpha channel for a jpeg. There is no opacity either as all jpegs are limited to being 100% opaque. Something else is going on in Motion. Is each image in a group? The group has opacity as do the layers themselves.
Could just be a bug with jpegs. Normally one would use a PNG file in Motion. But a jpeg should be just fine.
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There are 23 objects, 13 are jpegs, 10 are .mov exported from, FCPX as ProRes 422. A few of each type is displaying the transparency, so not limited to the jpegs.
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Must be a bug in Motion because neither ProRes 422 nor JPEG supports an alpha channel. So any transparency is added IN Motion via bug or user error. And I doubt you accidentally added transparency 23 times. Unless of course you did it once and then copied and pasted properties.
Do you have a screen shot or sample?
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Yes, here are a couple screenshots, you can see the page with the two J2 rocket engine diagrams is a bit transparent, whereas other documents are not. It is a jpg. The steam engine and fish are ProRes movies. All of these are replications (15 each of 23 sources). Sometimes movies are transparent, sometimes jpgs.
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Is this a particle emitter or replicator? 3D with camera? Seeing the LAYERS window would be much more helpful.
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Ah. My apologies, and thanks for your patience with me.
This is the whole thing — you can see most of those stacked replicators (not particle emitters). The rocket engine is Replicator 18, The steam engine is Replicator 03, etc. All the emitters are box, random, and in more or less the same place in 3D space, creating a big cloud of random pages to fly through. Like the Millennium Falcon in the asteroid field. ☺
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