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Keith, I believe I have a better approach which I used to good effect for an animation for Universal Studios (shameless namedropping, please forgive me <g>). You would create a second camera pointing in the direction your text faces, that is outwards and towards the sky-sphere/dome. You then render this view and save it as a sequence of .tga files. You can then use this, in the second rendering as a *texture* map on the front faces of the logo and the skydome doesn't need to be there at all. No matte objects necessary at all and alpha-split will work fine. Worked great for me and the client loved it – what more could you ask for?