Re: jaggys on text for avid from tiff

Assuming your text lines look jaggy during playback (not while paused), on your broadcast monitor (not your computer screen) then it's possible your creation and import settings aren't the same. But with your PSD sized to 1920x1080, I'm assuming you're working in a 1080i project. In the import settings, it's the top of the four choices (not at composer right now) you should use for graphics that are made the same size as your project. The other three will affect the size of the graphic, and could introduce jagged diagonal lines. Another thing to consider is the little timeline quality box at the lower left of the timeline window. If it's not full green, the graphics wont look as good as they can. If it's at yellow/green, click it until it's fully green. For your workflow, I can also recommend a time-saver. Instead of saving out TIFF files from your PSD, then reopening them to create an alpha channel and resaving before import to Avid, try PNG. PNG files save with transparency information, and will import into Avid beautifully. Turn on the layers you want in your PSD, effects, masks, transparency, whatever. Get it to look how it should and save out a PNG (non-interlaced is what I use). Then import that directly into the Avid. You may need to test out the invert / use existing switch to see what works best.

Good Luck!