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AE to FCP import question
(This is a continuation on a question I asked on the AE forum. If you want to read the whole thread, the title is: “Resizing comp for output” …it’s not very long.)
I’ve got a composition in After Effects that is 2340×1560 and it needs to be 720×480 for DV NTSC output.
I decided to render the full 2340×1560 comp out and then I imported it into FCP. Well, it looks great! Only one problem: it squeezes the image thinner height-wise, and fatter width-wise. The image isn’t noticably distorted (like I said, it looks great!), but now I’ve got a blank area above and beneath the image. This isn’t acceptable. My instructions were to fill the screen with the image. (The image, incidently, is a two-page spread of pages in a book that I’ve animated to turn from page to page.)
In AE,I’ve tried adjusting the comp size to 3:2, changing the pixel aspect ratio to (0.9), and interpreting the footage to DVNTSC. After FCP inport, all any of this does is push the picture around inside the bounds of the image, but the boundries of the image itself never grow or shrink.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Before to drag your image to the FC time-line check the pixel aspect in the FCs brownser, and the image aspect (Annamorphic?).
If I should make that job, I would resize in directly in AE because has better filters for resizing than FC.
Salud,
Rafael -
Thanks for the info. I did as you suggested in FCP. The Aspect ratio was set to “square” so I changed it to “NTSC-CCIR 601”. And “Anamorphic” was unchecked, so I checked it. I pulled the .mov into the timeline and it actually squashed the image even more! Thanks though, now I know of one more place to check.
I’m baffled on the AE side of things. I’ve done all I know how to do to resize the image (that is, without using filters that soften the image.)
This is probably a question for the AE forum, but you don’t know of any way to resample in After Effects like you can in Photoshop, do you? Just a thought.
Thanks.
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I assume your original BIG comp is square pixels?
How about you create a DV NTSC comp then nest your BIG comp into it and then scale it to fit to width?
You should not be worrying about changing pixel aspect ratios to compensate for anything. Let AE do its job and handle that for you.
— Wes Plate
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