[Dan Jacobsen]

thanks.

i’m using sapphire lens flare which works on alpha as well, i don’t think there’s any options for this.

i’m happy that the alpha is correct as i can put the comp or indeed a generated quicktime over other stuff in AE and it keys over perfectly.

i don’t understand what you mean about straight alphas. surely that would go into the avid as a seperate clip and then act as a matte when combined with the main gfx. is that what you mean or am i missing the point?

cheers mate

[Dan Jacobsen]

also they seem heavily compressed. strangely i can’t see a difference (but it is just text and glows on grey and white) but they png seq are about 7MB as apposed to movs and tga seq that are 200MB.

how come?

cheers

[Dan Jacobsen]

thanks guys.

i tried the png seq and it was good but not perfect. the lens flares at the start went on in a more or less additive manner but the ones at the end brought in a small ammount of black.

much better than what i had though!

should i get perfect results or is this as good as it gets. it’s fine for this job but i’m interested for future reference.

out of interest i tried tiff and tga seqs. the avid brought in the alphas without converting to rt mattes but they didn’t work half as well as the png seq. any reason for this?

as i say i’m just interested for future reference.

cheers

[Dan Jacobsen]

thanks for the quick reply jon. i just read that bit in the manual. yes my problem was that it was slipping at shallow angles, so i’ve tried the layer map way and it works fine.

thanks alot.