[Mike Jensen]

Jerry,

BULLEYE! Putting the shots on separate tracks and using opacity
changes instead of dissolves fixed the issue. It would be nice if
I could use regular dissolves…. but the work around doesn’t take
that much longer to create. Thanks again for your help!

-Mike Jensen

[Mike Jensen]

Thanks Jeremy. I went ahead and tried putting the shots on
separate tracks and using opacity changes instead of dissolves and
it worked perfectly. Thanks for your help as well.

-Mike

[Mike Jensen]

Thanks Jeremy.

My rendering options are set as you have suggested and I have
made sure everything is rendered correctly. As I went back over
the entire timeline I have noticed that the garbage mattes I
applied to video clips are doing the same thing. As the dissolves
take place there is a hard edge around the matte instead of a nice,
feathered soft edge. When I remove the dissolve and look at the
mattes the feathered edge looks perfect. It’s something about
the way the dissolve is working with the matte for some reason.

Mike Jensen

[Mike Jensen]

Thanks Jerry! I appreciate the quick response. I’ll give your
suggestions a try and let you know what kind of success I had.

-Mike Jensen