Jasen,

Set your production frame safe area to 80% for starters. Keep your logo within the inner box of that production frame (or at least when your logo lands, stops or finishes.)

Rendering size: 720x540 @ 30fps. Then when you bring it into the Avid, you will want to resize it to 720x486. This has to do with Carrara using square pixels (Photoshop is the same way). This will keep your images from looking stretched when they hit the TV.

If you are just rendering the logo alone and need to put it over a background later in the Avid, you will want to render with an alpha channel at a Depth of: Millions+. I usually render out a file format of Sequenced TGA (for Pinnacle editing systems) but I can't remember off the top of my head what Avid will/won't accept as far as file format goes.

That's about all I can think of right now - sorry if some of this is too basic info, I'm not sure what kind of questions you need answered. :-)

Hope that helps,
Chuck

Message edited on: 02/24/2006 15:35