Garbage matte not working!!!

I am having this problem where the lines and bounding boxes around a matte 4,8 or 16 point do not actually line up with the edge of the matte, making it virtually impossible to get the matte to the proper place. Furthermore in many cases the video will vanish completely when a matte is added unless the matte positions are left unchanged...
long story short, this severely limits what i can do with my projects!!!

>i just tried your suggestion of applying the matte to a duplicate layer
Not what I tried to explain.
New example:
Video layer 3: Copy of the clip (or background), NO garbage matte applied here.
Video layer 2: The clip with the garbage matte applied
Video layer 1: Background
Click on clip in Video layer 2, and then click on the garbage matte effect in "Video Effects".
Now do the adjustments to the garbage matte.
Deselect the garbage matte effect in "Video Effects" and remove (or click the eye-ball) in Video layer 3.
This (the above) works quite fine for me.
Your other problem I have never seen, but you should see if you somehow have managed to get keyframes when you have moved the still around when placing it to where you wanted it.
Some people have said that the garbage matte bug has been fixed in CS4.
Dag

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CLICK
THIS FOR THE IMAGE
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BlinkOk wrote:
> I'm trying to batch convert a whole lot of images from
.png alpha transparency
> images to .png or .gif index transparency images.
> when i export a single image using the fireworks ide i
have to set the matte
> value to black otherwise i get a white halo around the
image as in figure "A".
> If i set the matte to black then i get the results in
Figure "B" which is what
> i'm after.
>
http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug17uu.jpg
> Here is my question;
> when i try to BATCH proces a number of files using the
setings in figure "B"
> (Black matte) i still get the white halo. does anyone
know of a work around for
> this or maybe i'm doing something wrong.
> thanks in advance
>
>
>
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batch
process.
http://tinyurl.com/j5owp
Also, instead of using the generic FW export options, you can
choose
'Custom' from the drop down to set the settings. This was an
older file
but, it gets you to the right screen.
http://tinyurl.com/jzjwg
SKB

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BlinkOk wrote:
> I'm trying to batch convert a whole lot of images from
.png alpha transparency
> images to .png or .gif index transparency images.
> when i export a single image using the fireworks ide i
have to set the matte
> value to black otherwise i get a white halo around the
image as in figure "A".
> If i set the matte to black then i get the results in
Figure "B" which is what
> i'm after.
>
http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug17uu.jpg
> Here is my question;
> when i try to BATCH proces a number of files using the
setings in figure "B"
> (Black matte) i still get the white halo. does anyone
know of a work around for
> this or maybe i'm doing something wrong.
> thanks in advance
>
>
>
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http://tinyurl.com/jzjwg
SKB

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