• Adobe After Effects

  Cropping trouble

  Posted by Johan Tornlund on December 10, 2007 at 5:12 pm

  Hello, I have some trouble with masking and resizing in AE. Here’s the deal:

  I want to crop my 720×576 footage by half. And then resize it to fit my comp which is 1280×536.
  I realize this will distort the image but that is intentional.
  However when I choose the “fit to comp” command, only the source footage is resized (5:4) not the masked footage (5:2) leaving me with an ugly black box that fills half the screen.

  I can solve this by creating a precomp that “acts” as a mask instead of using a real mask.
  But this requires a lot of trial-and-error repositioning and guessing, taking up too much of my time.

  Is there any quicker way to solve this problem?

  Johan Tornlund replied 18 years, 5 months ago 19,259 Members · 1 Reply
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  Johan Tornlund

  December 10, 2007 at 7:17 pm

  Thanks but I think I wasn’t specific enough in my post. The solution you provided is exactly what I meant with the precomp that acts as a mask. And yes it works very well, but not so much in the long run. Since I need to do this for a lot of different footage, I’d very much like it if there was an automated way instead, like simply saving and loading a preset. But presets don’t include Comps if I’m not mistaken, so I’m not sure how I would do this.

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