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4×3 is being cropped
I am working with After Effects on CS4. Pulling my hair out.
I have an AE project which I rendered out 3 comps. All are dv.09 4×3 and all looks good. exported as quick time DV being sure to flag it as 4×3
Brought them into Premiere for additional work and all looks good. Exported 3 seperate files as Mpg2DVD making sure all is set to 4×3.
Using encore I generated 3 seperate dvd’s of these files. previewed all three within encore and all looks good
on playback using the same dvd player the same monitor two of the files playback propper 4×3 and one of the files is cropped top, bottom, left and right.
I bypassed Premiere and brought the three files directly into encore and the same problem occured. previewed fine in encore but after burn the same file became cropped.
I have looked through every setting I can find in AE to insure both comps have the identical 4×3 settings. All seems to match up exactly. The obvious difference between the comps is that 2 of them are very basic 2D, 3 layers typical motion graphics that I usually put together. The comp that is giving me trouble is 3D, 10 layers, camera, null object which is not typical for me.
I have trouble shot this one to death. Any thought would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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2 Replies
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Hi Paul,
I’m having the same problem here, 4×3 gets cropped on both sides. I don’t know if you used Adobe media encoder to get your m2v’s an audio, but when I do i get this result.
I even tried to make a dvd in DVD studio pro with the files, but they were cropped there too.
Really frustrating because I had made custom presets with everything manually set to deliver Pal 720 x 576 4:3. when I checked these files in Qt-pro, it wasn’t 720 x 576 but 720 x 540, even weirder because that way it should look wider in stead of squeezed…
I don’t know for sure, but maybe you should try and let encore do the encoding? On import of my raw / uncompressed movies, Encore shows me the right perspective, no cropping in the previews.
I hope this is something you can work with! Good luck!
Emile
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Hi Paul,
I’m sorry, last time I read in was a quick visit and I realize I missed your point.
I’ve never realized anything 3D in AE but in comparison with other graphical apps, could there be a problem causing the view to have virtual space included like a ‘bleed’ in Indesign or Quark? Or is everything ‘just’ cropped…
If everythying looks fine in preview (I’m sure you’ve checked this) it could be 4:3 shown in 16:9, on a 4:3 screen that looks like a ‘cropped-around’ picture. This way it would not be cropped but just a smaller version.
Sorry, but someone who’s into 3D in AE would be more helpfull I guess… I wish you all the luck!
Greetz Emile
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