[Theo Van laar]

Just click the LIGHTING AND APPEARANCE button and select a render mode from the pop‑up window.

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[Theo Van laar]

Select your text layer and go to the menu bar:
Layer-Type-ANTI-ALIAS SMOOTH (or any of the other options).

You will find the same aptions in the CHARACTER tab.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Could it be something with your firewall settings?
Do you see a yellow bar on top of your screen when you try to download Ohotoshop?

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[Theo Van laar]

FILE-AUTOMATE-CONTACTSHEET II

Good Luck!

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

To clean up the edges, you can use the brush tool with the mMODE set to OVERLAY.

good luck

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

So your file has a channel with information you want to use on your layer? Go to the channel tab and duplicate this channel (by context clicking and selecting the DUPLICATE CHANNEL option.
Next you go to the menu bar: SELECT-LOAD SELECTION and select the duplicated channel. It will appear as a selection on your layer.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

Here is a good tutorial about cropping:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/news/article.asp?articleid=73&keycode=64139

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[Theo Van laar]

You can try the trial version of new Blue video essentials II:
https://www.newbluefx.com/video-essentials-ii.html?vmcchk=1

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

BCC LIGHT WRAP is present in Boris RED and FX. You will find it under FILTERS-KEYS AND MATTE.

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

This is to prevent that DVDA will re-encode the audio to AC3, which leads to loss of quality.

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