Differences between renders inside C4D Lite and After Effects.

I have a weird problem with an object set as a shadow catcher which looks fine in C4D but then shows the margins when rendered in AE. I'm not talking about the OpenGL view in C4DL, I'm talking about the render when you press the "Render View" button. This is what it looks like:
However, the updated file in AE looks like this:
As you can see, the plane that I set as a shadow catcher shows the edges, but I can't figure out why. Granted, this is something that would have been easier to do with the Raytracer in AE, which I did, but I'm trying to learn C4D.
Any suggestions?

RobertJF wrote:
Looks like you've got a subtle light line around the top edge of your text as well, but not around the text where it overlaps the shadow catcher layer. Are you rendering the background through to AE or is the footage a separate layer in AE? Looks like an alpha problem to me given that it appears around the top edge of the text as well.
You were right, I failed to see that C4D files also have an alpha that you can set in the interpret footage dialog. In this case it was set to premutlipled and it has to be set to straight.
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