Jagged edges on still

Hi,
I have a title graphic (white letters on black bkg) which I put a luma key on to get rid of black bkg. I put a drop shadow on the letters and made a motion move with key frames. The letters have jagged edges...even after the motion has stopped. I tried saving the jpg as a tiff, same problem. is there another way of doing this to correct the jagged edge problem? (BTW: It looks fine in Photoshop)
thanks so much,
Eve

Hi Eve, it might need to be rendered completely first. Press the Option (alt on some keyboards) and R keys together, when your Timeline or Canvas is the active window.

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Charlie,
Here's what I do; load one of the images into the Viewer window and click on the Motion tab. Under the Crop controls, set Edge Feather somewhere between 8 to 12. Once you find the setting that works for your tastes, copy the image in the Timeline, then select all others to which you want to apply the effect. Right-click on one and select Paste Attributes->Crop from the contextual menu.
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Thanks for the idea, Steve. I like working with the HDV 720P high def projects for slideshows too. The quality is awfully nice to work with and it delivers projects that will work far better with tomorrow's hardware. Although we can't burn HD DVDs yet, hopefully that day will come soon, and the HDV slideshows we create today will look very good on the HDTVs we own tomorrow. They look good today, but they will look even better tomorrow.
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I've come across something strange which I'd like to resolve.
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Let's try this from the top.
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I'm creating a button logo in Fireworks for print use and
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I'm working in CMYK at 300DPI.
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to the button using an Anti-Alias edge:
White
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Now I add an outer bevel effect to the blue circle to give
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WOOOOOAAAAHHH!!!!
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For now, if you recreate the effect with an inner bevel
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alex
thedrumdoctor wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> thedrumdoctor wrote:
> > I tried the an export as a 24 Bit PNG and the edges
remaind jagged.
> >
> > I tried the same experiment in Photoshop with the
Vectors shapes there and
> the edges were perfect. Looks like Photoshop wins!
>
> Not sure what I am doing differently. I created a 300
dpi image in FW,
> drew the circle, filled it with blue and added a soft
bevel. No jagged
> edges. At 100% magnification things look fine on screen.
>
> Did similar in PS and got a very similar result,
although the bevel is a
> bit smoother.
>
> Are you referring to printed work, or screen work?
>
> Would really appreciate seeing the original png and
samples of the
> Photoshop vs Fireworks end results. If it's a
reproducible issue, it
> should be reported as a bug for future releases.
>
> --
> Jim Babbage - .:Community MX:. & .:Adobe Community
Expert:.
>
http://www.communityMX.com/
> CommunityMX - Free Resources:
>
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
> ---
> .:Adobe Community Expert for Fireworks:.
> Adobe Community Expert
>
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> ---
> See my work on Flickr
>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_babbage/
>
>
>
> Well, I've repeated the exercise with a new png file and
uploaded it here
>
http://www.nlauro.f9.co.uk/images/test.vector.circles.png
>
> As you can see, the edges are still jagged on the blue
circle. You can
> download this and see for yourself anyway.
>
> This was done in Fireworks MX so I'm not using the
latest release of Fireworks.
>
> The shape was eventually destined for print work by the
way. As much as I
> don't like the clumsy way PS forces you to create vector
shapes, it produced a
> near perfect smooth edge on the same experiment.
>

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