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Yes, for me there is no joy yet. Outputting it straight made horrible clouds is FCP.

Any other ideas?

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I output the RGB+Alpha matte, straight, millions of colors for some text I generated in AE just as a test. Still very blocky. Any help? Sorry I can’t figure this d@*^ thing out, but I have to get it out today.

Thank you!

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Oops, meant do you output as RGB+Alpha…

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What are the settings when saving a movie (as this text moves)? Do you output two separate output modules or one REG+Alpha? The text created has lots of glow and a 3D effect created in Illustrator, but the resulting alphas I rendered out looked horribly blocky.

Anyone else out there know any tricks to improve the initial aliasing that happens in Illustrator? And then continues a bit in AE–the object I imported int AE is also washed out. Any tricks for creating logos in illustrator and importing them into AE so they retain their look?

Thanks for the help.

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Thank you. Though I don’t have access to the camera. Any other suggestions?

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Thanks I will try the scope. It is not being scaled up, I made it purposely big and scaled it down to avoid this. Any suggestions for dealing with red? Will it look bad on a computer monitor and then ok on a tv? I will burn it to disk now and try it.

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I went back into photoshop and changed it to NTSC colors. The color is much fainter now, but still jagged. Any other suggestions of how to deal with red in text?

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I am outputting 10- bit uncompressed to FCP HD. I sent the comp to the render queue…is there another way to output it? I put a small white border around it to help. But it is still aliasing badly on diagonals and curves.

Thanks so much for your help. I have to get this on a dvd today.

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Would Boris also be your best suggestion for adding subtitles? Are there any other plugins that would do this job better? Agree that fcp text sucks to titles/credits in general.

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Hello, Ok, I have the plug in. I step frame through the footage and see that AA and DD have the split frames. So I go back to cinema tools and try to reverse telecine but it only allows me to choose either AB or BB or CC or DD or DA. I have tried a few different times: DD and DA but what happens is I get a 24p with one split frame still left in it. Then I tried “Style 2” and it has D3A1 but the same result. I am so sorry I don’t quite get the instructions to do this…this is a definitely a learning experience.

When I asked the lab who scanned it, he said it was “clean cadence” so it should be easy to remove the pulldown.

Thanks for your help.