• Adobe After Effects

  AE changing imported movie formats when importing? why?

  Posted by Kathleen Judge on August 22, 2010 at 8:12 pm

  Hello-

  Run into something baffling.

  My AE Comp is 1920×1080. When I import footage (mov also at 1920×1080) & place footage clips into the comp, the imported footage is a smaller (4:3) format. I then have to go to Transform & ‘fit to comp’.

  Two questions:

  1. why are the mov.s, that’re same format as comp, changing when imported into AE?

  2. am I degrading the image when I just go to ‘Fit to Comp’, rather than get to the bottom of this?

  Thanks-
  KJ

  Kevin Camp replied 15 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Christian Matts

  August 23, 2010 at 3:04 am

  sounds like a pixel aspect ratio problem. see if it’s set to a dvcpro preset.
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  Kathleen Judge

  August 23, 2010 at 4:05 pm

  Thanks. Great info. Will read up more on the pixel aspect resolution.

  Do you have a good resource (book or weblink) you’d recommend for learning more about pixel aspect resolution?
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  Kevin Camp

  August 23, 2010 at 7:43 pm

  ae’s online manual has a lot of info on par, and it provides several links to more info from the likes of trish and chris meyers:

  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f3aa.html

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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