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    18-Oct-95 09:20:56
Sb: #195783-#B&W to W&B
Fm: Stephen Grisez 72730,3634
To: James Coulter[Mindscape] 73670,677
James, >> Why are you using FLCS to begin with? For previewing? I have a logo that has handwriting. I am animating the text so that the script handwriting is being created over time about 6 seconds. What it amounts to is a lot of erasing pixels and fliping to the previous screen. This is a very simple but tedious task in Animator Pro. Start with the 1 image, the logo. -Erase 'some' of the last letter. -Hit the insert key -Erase 'some more' of the last letter. -Hit the insert key -etc. I believe this task would be much slower in Animator Studio so I chose to work with FLC files in Animator Pro. After a while, you have created a animation of handwritning being written. My concern was that I went from 24bit tga (my original logo) to an (8 bit) flc. I am concerned about the 'pseudo alpha' not working as good as 'alpha'. I understand that 'alpha' (which works on 24bit images) works for better compositing than 'pseudo alpha'(which works on 8bit gif images). This is why I believe that I must change my images back to TGA files, and then composit my handwriting logo onto some cool background. Is this correct? Thanks again, Stephen