• Adobe After Effects

  Stills in AE

  Posted by Johan Moeskops on May 25, 2005 at 4:30 pm

  Hi.

  I have to make a big project from stills only in AE.
  Is it smart to convert the stills in Photoshop to non square pixels?
  For example dv Pal?

  Thanks.

  Johan

  Johan Moeskops replied 20 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  May 25, 2005 at 5:24 pm

  You don’t need to.

  As long as you import them correctly (so that After Effects knows that they are Square Pixels), when you work in a PAL composition, AE will automatically adjust your pictures so that they will work correctly in your compositions.

  In other words, if I have a square pixel picture of a circle, it looks round in a square pixel comp. If I drop that picture into a non Square Comp, AE will stretch the pixles to match the comp’s Pixel aspect ratio. My circle will now look more oval then round – which is the way it should be.

  Hope that helps.

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  Filip Vandueren

  May 25, 2005 at 7:08 pm

  I would say it’s not smart, especially if you’re going to do rotations.
  An image that’s squished horizontally to pal won’t need to be squished by after effects. True.

  But if you rotate it to say 90
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  Johan Moeskops

  May 26, 2005 at 9:00 am

  Hi Guys.

  Thanks for the fast reply.
  I understand this.
  I’am going to work now on the project.

  Regards,
  Johan

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