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  • Render out square pixels in AE? Please?

    Posted by Laurie Pepper on March 5, 2015 at 8:38 am

    I have a big clip which was originally sent to Compressor from FCP7 and rendered out as 640 X 480 square pixels.
    Which is what I wanted.
    BUT When take a piece of that clip, bring it into AE to add an effect & then render it out with “Current Settings” it delivers
    Pixel aspect NTSC – CCIR
    But I WANT
    pixel aspect square just like the original.

    Any way to render out with square pixels? I understand default in AE is square, so…
    What am I doing wrong?

    Laurie Pepper replied 11 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
  • 5 Replies
  • Daniel Waldron

    March 5, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    Have you checked your composition settings in AE to make sure it is set to square pixels?

  • Todd Kopriva

    March 5, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    For others reading this thread, there is more detail on Laurie’s duplicate thread here:
    https://forums.adobe.com/message/7253081

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  • Laurie Pepper

    March 5, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    Yes, I did. Finally discovered which codec to use & in comp setting. it works but renders out a much larger clip with lots of black space around the edges. So when I bring it into fcp7 I have to bring it up to 100%% and image correctly fills window on correct timeline. Kinda sloppy but it works.

  • Laurie Pepper

    March 5, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    Thanks Todd. Got annoyed with Response tonAdobe thread asking me why I want square pixels!? Anyway, I seem to have found what seems like a workaround since out render of AE comp with square pixels gives
    Me larger clip with black space around the image. But if I look at it at 100% in FCP7, it fills the frame in correct FCP timeline setting.

  • Laurie Pepper

    March 5, 2015 at 6:50 pm

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