[Geraint Pari huws]

carlos…

just mark an in+out around your frame, right click, export. Check the options again.
use marks -enable
color levels- doen’t matter in this instance

[Geraint Pari huws]

I know this is ignoring the real question…

how about a medialess omf?

[Geraint Pari huws]

do you have animatte in your key effects?

[Geraint Pari huws]

strange…
workaround

crate a white field with title tool

step into the key effect and replace your fill with the white field, or, if your graphics prog allows render /save your text in a unpremultiplied form, this should produce a (dirty) fill larger than the alha and will eliminate any poor edging..

[Geraint Pari huws]

the best way is to export a frame to photoshop from the shot and use this as a guide to paint the grad,

photoshop…
bottom layer exported frame from avid
create new layer
paint black with soft edges over the area you need to col correct
delete bottom layer(avid frame)
flatten image
this should give you a black and white grad with a soft edge, you could blur the whole image if necessary.

import frame to avid
v1
untreated shot

v2
color corrected shot

v3
photoshop grad

…
add matte key to v3(you may have to invert key in effect editor), this will reveal just the selected parts from the color corrected shot.

you can produce similar results by forgetting photoshop and alt adding an animatte effect to v2.

reply for more…

[Geraint Pari huws]

for your effect to work on text created in ps you need to manipulate the alpha layer which is probably locked, so avid won’t allow you to step in and add the effect, and presumably the effect becomes invisible when added to the fill because the aplha layer is still the same…

If practical import the text as a flat layer ignoring any alphas, luma key, then step in to add the boris effect.

[Geraint Pari huws]

depends on your budget…

from my experience I would only use ae for short sequences/the obvious move if budget allows is to symphony/nitris.
If you have to go the ae route then the duck is usefull to export seqs so that they reappear in ae as a timeline rather than one long layer, agian this could become daunting for a 49min piece!
If you can work a shot at a time then ae will read qt references, but you will still have to render within ae and import back to express – don’t compress when you render!
Your grad effects could be done within avid, three layers, v1 color correct/v2 colour correct, layer 3 a grad drawn in photoshop as a matte key to selectivly add parts of v2.
Audiowise, chose a system that will read omfs, if you need a picture reference then you may need to export a downresed qt.

[Geraint Pari huws]

is emulation enabled in the special menu?

[Geraint Pari huws]

light burst in Final Effects does this brilliantly though slowly, don’t know if it’s still available, it gave an option – halo alpha – which does exactly what it says,

work around for sheen effect…

dupe your text layer, blur it a liitle and hot it up with cc (if it isn’t already 255) then option add animatte/or a circular wipe on top, use this to create a travelling mask across the blurred text.

You could go back to photoshop to create a slighty oversized/glowy version of the text then just add the travelling mask/wipe in avid…

[Geraint Pari huws]

probably to late now –

if it was movement that looked pants then your interpolation setting were wrong (import settings on avid should correspond to your ae sttings…upper/lower/non interlaced etc. Motion bluring in ae is also an important consideration.

RGB unpremult + alpha can be a better option, again it will look pants when you import it to avid, but will look cleaner when keyed over you background, by using unpremult the fill is larger than the key/matte/alpha giving cleaner soft edges and more scope if you need to defocus etc in avid.