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photoshop text layers w/ transparent backgrounds turning pink at random in FCP
Hi I am using photoshop text files with transparent backgrounds as “lower thirds” name titles in a FCP project timeline.
Mostly they are working fine but every other one or so has an edge or two that turn HOT PINK! Its really bizarre.
They have drop shadows on them and i had at one point had the transparency pattern a pink and purple to see my 80% gray text, but i changed the transparency back to its original gray and white and even re-made some of the lower thirds over again and still the random HOT PINK edge artifacts pop up and every other photoshop file or so.
One thing i have not done is to rasterize my text which i am about to do, but if you have had such a problem or know the cause let me know!
Thanks
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[Glen] “Mostly they are working fine but every other one or so has an edge or two that turn HOT PINK! “
these edges mostly on right side?I faced this problem in FCP3 the first time, wrote to Apple, sent them files to show the problem…. and every new release of FCP since then was without fix nor did I get any evidence that they tried to investigate the issue.
very annoying … I no more use PSD files with transparent layers in FCP, exporting alpha channel as seperate pict file instead.
the funny thing is… the same PSD files with transparent layers work fine in DVDSP, so someone at apple should know how to do it.
kurt
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I forgot to write:
– I am working in PAL
– I am using Photoshop 7maybe there are differences to NTSC and/or Photoshop CS that are introducing these pink edges?
kurt
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Wow thats so weird, we couldn’t figure it out either, instead we just kept making a new file over and over until it worked…and even then the last text layer which ended with a word ending with 2 “l”s (powell) i had to rasterize the text layer, the delete the last “l” that was pink and copy and paste the other one. very strange.
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The good and the bad of this is that there’s a workaround. Good, because you CAN make it work. Bad, because Apple knows this and will therefore probably never fix it. Or they’ll make it work better with their Photoshop knock-off, Aperture, but not with Photoshop. This doesn’t happen in DV or DVCPro50 sequences, only uncompressed, as far as I can tell. Which is ironic since that’s when you’re really working for high quality.
Joe Murray
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