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I am hoping someone can shed some light on what is happening with my opacity levels when exporting text with an alpha. I have animated text where some words are black at 50% opacity and some words are white at full opacity. They are on a textured background. I need to give the other editors a version of the text married to the background and one that is just text with an alpha. When I export it and bring it into Premiere, the "married" version looks fine, but the black in the version of the text with alpha appears more transparent. I can fix this by changing the blend mode to Hard Light or Luminosity, but this alters the color of the white text slightly (and I should note that the blend mode in AE was normal). I can of course work around this by exporting my black and white text separately, but I was hoping someone might know why this is happening.
I am working on AE CC (ver12) and Premiere CC (ver7)
Thank you!

Rick, I am judging visually.
I have since taken the cue from Mylenium, and I think the problem has to do with the fact that AE's default opacity is not linear and Premiere's is. When I change the sequence settings of Premiere and uncheck "Composite in Linear Color" the blacks of my clips match. Similarly when I change my Project Settings in AE and check "Linearize Working Space" the blacks appear lighter as they did when with the text only clip in Premiere. Since I am working with other editors that are using Premiere, I assume I should change the settings in After Effects to match Premiere (linear). Unless there is any reason I shouldn't do that?
Thank you,
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