Custom Shatter Map - Getting Artifacts

Hi there -
I'm pretty new to After Effects and I've been working on a project where I'm taking a logo (designed in dots) and using the shatter effect to bring it together. I'm using a custom shatter map and setting the shatter map image back to the logo image itself. This gives me the perfect shatter effect where my dots separate out just as I was wanting. However, I'm getting some bad artifacts as well as my dots becoming pixelated around the edges themselves.
I've watched two tutorials on this site on using the custom shatter map. I've tried a couple of different things like duplicating my logo and recoloring it, making it black and white, using colorama on it, etc. but all give me worse results.
What am I missing here? Thank you so much in advance for any tips you can give!
Here's the render of the logo comp (I'm reversing this for my effect).
http://vimeo.com/38466319
Here is an image of the confetti-like artifacts I'm getting.
What I'm using:
Mac OS X 10.7.2
After Effects CS5

check Youtube and vimeo for the Shatter tutorial by the creator fo the effect, Brian Maffett. I'm pretty sure he has posted his entire 120 minute movie he did when Shatter was originally released. It explains exactly how to create custom shatter maps and exactly why yours looks the way it does. Each of those little doodads is present in your map because you have not created the artwork properly but there are ne easy directions for the task. ONe thing many newbies at Shatter fail to understand is the custom shattering map driver is not the same file as the art that gets applied to the surface of the object.
As Mr Myl notes, MinMax is one way to flatten your art for Shatter. But olorama is my favorite and it's recommended by Brian. Shatter looks for 8-bit colors with zero interpolation between the segments of color. Red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, cyan, white and black. That's it. No grays, no tertiary interpolation between the hard colors. Those indistinctly colored pixels are causing your tiny artifacts.
Pixelation is a result of many things. Shatter is not a procedural filter; once the pieces are formed, they move but they never get any larger. The pieces do not get cleaner as they approach the camera so the individual pixels become clearly and obnoxiously visible. You must start with a h-u-g-e precomp if you need the superb resolution and that, of course, will take forever to render at maximum quality and maximum physics.

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Hi Experts,
I need to create a customer exit to get the last day of month from Cal Year month input variable.
Examples
1)
User input period: 12.2008
I need from the customer exit: 31.12.2008
2)
User input period: 02.2009
I need from the customer exit: 28.02.2009
Can someone help me with the ABAP code to achieve this with a customer exit?
Help will be appreciated.

Hi,
Please use the following code,
Second one is the suitable solution for you, I can understand that, if it leafe year then you have the problem so use the secon one.
First one is using Period i.e. 010.2008 (December 2008).
Secodn one is based on Date/Month.
Note: Insted of SY-DATUm, you give your variable name
*******To get the Last day of the Fy Period entered by User in ZFYP***
    WHEN 'ZLDAY_FI'.
      LOOP AT i_t_var_range INTO loc_var_range WHERE vnam = 'ZFYP'.
        zbdatj = loc_var_range-low+0(4).
        zbuper = loc_var_range-low+4(3).
        CALL FUNCTION 'LAST_DAY_IN_PERIOD_GET'
          EXPORTING
            i_gjahr = zbdatj
            i_periv = 'V3'
            i_poper = zbuper
          IMPORTING
            e_date = zzdate.
        CLEAR: l_s_range.
        l_s_range-low = zzdate.
        l_s_range-sign = 'I'.
        l_s_range-opt = 'EQ'.
        APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
      ENDLOOP.
Note: in the below code I given SY-DATUM, so you change to your Month Variable like using
LOOP AT i_t_var_range INTO loc_var_range WHERE vnam = 'XXXX'.
** Last Day of Current Calendar month
      zzdate = sy-datum.
      CALL FUNCTION '/OSP/GET_DAYS_IN_MONTH'
        EXPORTING
          iv_date = zzdate
        IMPORTING
          ev_days = znum.
      CLEAR: l_s_range.
      l_s_range-low+6(2) = znum.
      l_s_range-low+0(4) = sy-datum+0(4).
      l_s_range-low+4(2) = sy-datum+4(2).
      l_s_range-sign = 'I'.
      l_s_range-opt = 'EQ'.
      APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
Thanks
Reddy
Edited by: Surendra Reddy on Jan 27, 2009 2:47 PM
Edited by: Surendra Reddy on Jan 28, 2009 6:12 AM

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