Product specifications

Avid|DS 4.02 Release Notes June 2001 13
Paint and Titling
Import Limitations
You can import a subset of the level-3 Adobe Illustrator EPS format. Only the shape information is imported.
You can import HTML text and basic formatting information, such as font style, color, and tabulations (as
HTML tables). This does not, however, include other HTML tags, such as images, forms, or scripts. Recent
versions of word processing software, which add XML markup tags along with HTML, are not supported.
We recommend that you use earlier versions as XML is not yet supported.
Raster Paint Limitations
The .gen files generated when burning frames are managed on a per project basis, so deleting or not saving
sequences that contain burned frames may leave orphaned .gen files. To help track and delete these files, enter
a name in the Base Cache File Name text box in the Graphics property page, use the rastered frames tooltips in
the Graphic Object View (GOV), or use the Save option when right-clicking on the rastered frames in the GOV.
Deleting a project will also destroy all associated burned frames.
Presets of graphics sessions that contain burned frames cannot be reloaded in sequences that have a different
resolution or frame rate.
The burned frames of graphics sessions become opaque. Changes to any effect underneath a graphics session
will be ignored for those frames.
Burned frames are not visible when a paint sequence is used as a proxy (Alt-drop from browser). To work
around this, select the Non-real-time option and process.
Artifacts Contained in Interactive Display of Effects
The interactive display of the following effects contain very noticeable artifacts:
Brushes: Bas Relief, Chrome, Glass, and Textured.
Gradient effects with the Reveal option deselected: Color Gradient, Linear Gradient, and Radial Gradient.
Keyer: HLS Keyer with the Fast Blur option selected.
These artifacts appear only during interactive display, not when the frames are processed. To work around this, exit
the graphics session, make sure the play cursor is not over the graphics session, purge memory caches, and process.
Display Quality May Decrease if Viewer Resized to Less Than D1 Resolution
If you resize the viewer to less than D1 resolution, the image in the viewer will also resize. This may decrease the
image quality. The viewer is resized if you edit the default layout and make the viewer smaller than D1, or if you
work in Non-square Pixels mode. In both cases, an exclamation point (!) is displayed at the bottom-right of the
viewer to indicate that you are not viewing the image at D1 quality.
Composited Graphics Effect Seen Only in Editing Layout
When you apply a Graphics effect to a clip in the overlay track, the Graphics layout is displayed. In this layout, the
viewer displays the graphics you apply to the clip on the overlay track, but it will not display the final composite.
To view the final composite, you must switch back to the Editing layout.