Unexpected template/styles behavior

Hello,
I have searched everywhere in the archives for my problem,
but none of the keywords I am coming up with are finding me
anything. So here it goes.
I have a user that is using Dreamweaver CS3 and is having a
strange problem with templates and style definitions.
She has a template and the first few lines look like this:
quote:
<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>Student Investment Fund</title>

<style type="text/css">
/* Page */
html, body {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
body { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
When she creates a new page with this template, the first few
lines look like this:
quote:
<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>Student Investment Fund</title>
When she's working on individual page content and she formats
the text that she's putting in (say she wants to change a word to
be red), Dreamweaver inserts the extra style definitions between
the <html> tag and the  line.
quote:
<html>
<style type="text/css">

</style>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
THEN she decides something needs to change in the template so
she changes the template and when Dreamweaver applies the changes
to this particular file, it wipes out the extra style definitions
that were inserted (above example).
Does anyone have any insight as to what is happening here, or
how I can get around this?
We are planning to have the site completely rewritten
(because the first one wasn't written that well) but I do need a
short term solution until that happens.
P.S. Another thing that confuses me is that Dreamweaver
doesn't populate the 'Style' dropdown list in the Properties box
with styles that are defined in the non-editable template part of
the page (the global styles). In fact, it doesn't recognize them at
all. Unfortunately whoever made this template left style
definitions with their default names (style1, style2) and when new
styles are created for individual pages, it uses the same names and
she ends up with two 'style1' definitions...?

How many files do you have hanging off this template?
Clearly there is an error in the child page's HTML. The
embedded
stylesheet, being between <html> and <head> is
not only misplaced, but will
indeed be erased by DW each time you update the template.
Do these rules in that embedded stylesheet change from page
to page? Or
would they be better placed in an external stylesheet?
Anyhow, show me what happens to the head region for this page
when you apply
this template to it.
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"biannucci" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Here is the entire template....
>
quote:
<html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> <title>Student Investment Fund</title>
> 
> <style type="text/css">
> /* Page */
> html, body {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
> body { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
> div { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
> /* Upper Area */
> div.upper { background-color: #290770; text-align:
center; }
> .upper p { margin: .5em 0 0 0; }
> .upper br { margin: 5px 0 0 0; }
> table.upperTable { border: none; width: 99%; padding:
5px 0px 0px 5px; }
> upperTable.tr, upperTable.td { margin:0; padding: 0; }
> /* Nav Area */
> div.nav { background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF;
vertical-align:
> middle;
> text-align: left; padding: 8px; margin-bottom: 10px;}
> .nav a, .nav a:visited, .nav a:active { color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration:
> none; }
> .nav p { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
> .style1 {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> font-size: small;
> }
> .style1 a {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> }
> .style2 {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> font-style: italic;
> font-size: small;
> }
> .style9 {font-size: xx-large; }
> .style20 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size:
> 10px;
> }
> </style>
> 
> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> 
> <div class="upper">
> <table width="100%" class="upperTable">
> <tr>
> <td width="50%"><img border="0"
src="../images/schoollogo.gif"
> width="275"
> height="73"></td>
> <td width="50%" align="right"><p
class="style1"><a
> href="
http://www.business.utah.edu/index.php">DAVID
ECCLES SCHOOL OF
> BUSINESS
> </a></p>
> <p class="style2">Education with Impact
</p></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> <br />
> </div>
> 
> 
> <div class="nav">
> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">
| <a
> href="../index.html">Home</a> | <a
href="../about/fundhome.html">
> About
> the Fund</a> | <a
href="../current/currenthome.html"> Current
> Performance</a>
> |<a href="../historical/Year by Year
Review/historicalhome.html">
> Historical
> Performance </a>| <a href="../logon.php">
Members Only</a>
> |</font></p>
> </div>
> 
> 
> 
> <p align="center"
class="style9"> </p>
> 
> 
> 
> <div class="footer">
> <div align="center">
> <center>
> <table width="100%" height="141" border="0"
cellpadding="3"
> cellspacing="0">
> <tr>
> <td width="25%"><font face="Arial"
size="2"> </font></td>
> <td width="48%"> </td>
> <td width="27%"> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td width="25%" height="109"><p
align="right"></p></td>
>
> <td width="48%">
> <p align="center" class="style20"><a
> href="
http://www.business.utah.edu"
target="_blank">Eccles
> School</a> | <a href="
http://www.utah.edu"
> target="_blank">University
> of Utah</a></p>
> <p align="center"><span
class="style20"><a
>
href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
> | <a
> href="
http://www.utah.edu/disclaimer/">Disclaimer</a></span>
</p>
> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"
size="1">Last update
> July 17, 2007
> </font> </td>
> <td width="27%">
> <p align="right"><a href="
http://www.utah.edu"
target="_blank"><img
> border="0" src="../images/blockulogo.gif" width="126"
height="90"></a>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </center>
> </div>
> <p align="right"> </p>
> <p align="right"> </p>
> </div>
> 
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
> Here is the code from <html> to </head> of
one of the files that uses the
> template:
>
quote:
<html>
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> 
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> 
> <title>Student Investment Fund</title>
> 
> <style type="text/css">
> /* Page */
> html, body {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
> body { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
> div { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
> /* Upper Area */
> div.upper { background-color: #290770; text-align:
center; }
> .upper p { margin: .5em 0 0 0; }
> .upper br { margin: 5px 0 0 0; }
> table.upperTable { border: none; width: 99%; padding:
5px 0px 0px 5px; }
> upperTable.tr, upperTable.td { margin:0; padding: 0; }
> /* Nav Area */
> div.nav { background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF;
vertical-align:
> middle;
> text-align: left; padding: 8px; margin-bottom: 10px;}
> .nav a, .nav a:visited, .nav a:active { color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration:
> none; }
> .nav p { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
> .style1 {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> font-size: small;
> }
> .style1 a {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> }
> .style2 {
> color: #FFFFFF;
> font-style: italic;
> font-size: small;
> }
> .style9 {font-size: xx-large; }
> .style20 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size:
> 10px;
> }
> </style>
> 
> </head>
>
>
>
> Disclaimer: I am fully aware that this is really bad
html coding....its
> the
> reason I'm having the entire site rewritten....
>

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I'm exporting my film to files with codecs that support alpha channels, not because I want an alpha in the result but because I need full RGB / 444 color coding for digital cinema theaters. I'm using ProRes444, Targa and PNG Image sequences to preserve as much quality as possible in my master exports.
I've discovered that there is no option to disable the alpha transparency in the Export Media step while preserving at least 10 bits per color channel (Trillions of colors in AE).
To solve this problem, I've had to add a "Black Video" clip to the first video track, underneath the film's content. When this is done, the pre-rendered text elements with alphas look different. They are movie trailer style text treatments that are light text over pure black. (I'm on my ipad right now and don't see a way to upload screen shots to show examples)
The result with the black video layer applied at the bottom is similar to the way QuickTime 7 displays straight alphas incorrectly. This problem occurs with both straight and premultiplied renders. The rendered text is from after effects and is stored using the animation codec.
I'm aware of how to work around this, by maintaining the alpha transparency in Premiere and then removing the alpha channel of my export by running it through After Effects, but that is a ridiculous, time consuming step.
I'm working with the GPU Mercury Engine on with a K5000 from NVIDIA. Can anyone explain this behavior? Is there no way to interpret alphas as straight versus premultiplied in Premiere? Why do my transparent layers display differently with a Black Video layer below them?
Here are the screen shots
UNDESIRED EFFECT using Black Video layer at bottom: Notice the fuzzy glow surrounding the text. This is happening with both straight and premultiplied renders.
INTENDED LOOK when composited over nothing: The glowing edges are displayed the same way in Premiere as in After Effects.

In my understanding, the reason 444 is indicated is because they are not RGB codecs. They simply sample the same amount of color as is possible in true RGB codecs. They still require a conversion from RGB to YUV for coding to a file, which almost always introduces a very slight shift in values, though usually imperceptible or acceptable. If the codec is truly RGB there is no need to indicate luminance vs color sampling.
...I think.
Again thank you for your awesome input! You've been a huge help here on my day off. :)

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