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marcopolio
10-08-2003, 01:12 PM
I am using some green screen footage of people mapped onto polygons as a 3D element in LW. I used Ultimatte to key them and they look fantastic. When I bring them into LW, the only way to get the transparency I need is by using fills and mattes I have renedered from AE. The nice soft edges hair, etc that I managed to keep using Ultimatte, is ever so rudely chopped off with the clipping matte. Can anywone tell me how to get my nice soft edge and detail back? I tried looking in the LW manual, and all it says about using the embedded alpha channel in footage is that it can detect it.. but you should turn it off because it doesnt work right. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!

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toby
10-09-2003, 01:49 AM
If you use the alpha in the transparency channel it should work, there is no 'softness' with clip maps.

marcopolio
10-09-2003, 09:07 AM
Yeah, we eventually figured that out. Thanks! Such a goofy setup.

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