Overlay - blocky button graphic

Hi
I've created an overlay in Motion using a basic arrow for a button. However, in DVDsp the arrow is very blocky and poor quality.
The arrow is in Black in Motion, and its created on the menu that DVDsp uses, so the size should be right.
Help appreciated.
Thanks
Trevor

Yes, red + blue = 2. You still only have two levels of anti-aliasing. This plug-in takes a round-about way of getting to the same results. The plug-in takes the potentially hundreds of levels of anti-alaising you have with a grayscale image and reduces it down to two levels which it then converts to red and blue so that you can use Chroma Mapping instead of Grayscale Mapping for the anti-aliasing. The plug-in allows you to see the jaggies before bringing it into DVD SP, it does not "fix" the problem of the DVD specs only having two levels of anti-aliasing for overlays.

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