[Anders Carlsson]

Hi Dave,

thank you for your response,

but I turned pixel aspect correction off. Still, it’s no way near how it looks in QT or FCP. I have tried rendering a file from AE and compared the two in QT, and the AE-one looks really bad in comparasion. AE is making something with the file that makes it look bad and pixely.

[Anders Carlsson]

Hi all,

thank you for you responses.

The scource is a 1280×720 WMV file that I converted to a TIFF sequence to work with. I converted it becuse AE didn’t seem to work very good with WMV files. The stuff I did on the sequence was just adding some text. Anyway, if I render this to my output format, which is either WMV or AVI (must play in Windows Media Player, any other suggestions?), everything works great, my blacks are black.

When I crop it by using a smaller comp or by using the crop options in the render que, my blacks become grey.

I export the 1280×720 final composite to a TIFF or Quicktime format, then import that to AE, crop it and render out, I loose my blacks.

If I render out a TIFF sequence of the final 1280×720, and open it in Photoshop, crop it, and render out as a new TIFF-sequence that I import into AE and render to a WMV or AVI, I loose my blacks.

Even if I just take one frame of the TIFF sequence, open it in Photoshop, crop it, save it, open in AE and render out as a WMV or AVI, the blacks become grey.

Suggestions?