Intersecting Layers with alpha problem

Hi,
I have a problem with Motion when two layers intersect. On layer is totally opaque, and the second layer has transparent areas. The problem occurs in areas when the transparent areas intersect with opaque areas. In those regions I get a dark gray line appearing.
Check out this image and you will see what I mean.
http://jack.fxhome.com/MotionLine.jpg
Note: I get this unwanted line in the exported frame as well.
Why does motion do this?
Is there anyway around this?
Thanks

1) Try setting your Render Quality to Best (under the View pop-up menu)
2) Try changing the alpha interpretation of the layer with transparency - select it, press Shift-F, and try the different options in the Inspector's Media tab.

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Hi JJMack - I just re-read your post. For some reason I thought you were suggesting to make sure "Open documents in Tabs" was selected, it was. Now I realize you were suggesting to turn it off! As another attemp to solve this problem I did de-select it today. Seemed to work for a good while. I was getting very excited, then, on the last set of images I had to do it displayed the same problem. But, it did go for quite a while without failing, and when it did I was thrashing about trying to make another app active. When loading documents like this - with "Open documents in Tabs" de-selected, Photoshop wants to put the loading images as the front-most window, no matter what other apps (Bridge, email, web etc) I click on in the dock. I think it is related to the bug you described effecting the "load files to stack" command.
Hopefully Adobe is looking at this - mind you, I have read reports of people having this problem in CS5! Looks like that was never resolved sadly.
I'll keep testing and post back.
I am looking to upgrade my video card to see if it's a video memory thing.
What is very weird though is the fact that this problem didn't present itself until after several weeks of working with this command with no problem. No additional apps installed, nothing changed. Why would it start happening only after a while?
Thanks again for your suggestion.

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