cribble wrote:How the hell... well, brilliant you've found a solution. Anyone else can confirm this?

Does this solved the AE CS3 problem also?

Indeed, this solves the problem I had.

My ASPro version is 5.5. I'm going to try uninstalling After Effects. I'm not sure if AE setup modified any QT files, but I uninstalled and re-installed QT several times since then. I had to uninstall QT for now as it was also causing my browser (Opera 9.23) to crash when a webpage tried to load QT ...

I'm not 100% sure that it's because of After Effects but I don't know what else it could be. Also, batch export crashes as well.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm using Windows XP and I was able to export to QT before.

After installing After Effects CS3, ASP crashes when I try to export an animation via QuickTime. I have already tried uninstalling and re-installing After Effects and QuickTime. Anyone else having a problem with QuickTime?

The layers are made in Corel Painter so when exported to Photoshop they don't get a proper layer mask. But I think I found another solution: Defringe (under the Layer, Matting menu in Photoshop CS). Defringing with a 1-pixel width took care of the artifacts. Now I need to automate applying it to eve...

Thanks for the informative replies. Blending modes work for some images, don't work for others unfortunately (the artifacts disappear but the blending is wrong :)). I'm going to try adjusting the alpha channels in Photoshop and also the resizing suggestion but even if one of those works, it's a lot ...

Here's the PNG. Hopefully Imageshack didn't modify the file.

To get what I get, put the image as an image layer, then put another image or vector layer containing, for example, a large fill under it.

I use Corel Painter to make a multi-layered image, export it as a Photoshop file and use the Photoshop-to-Anime Studio script to get the layers into Anime Studio. This results in each layer being exported as a PNG file with alpha channel. I also tried exporting the layers one by one using "Save...