[Darkdaven]

Thanks for all the help. So far I’ve been using the pre-compose sections into movies and moving them as a unit that way, and then fixing what remains, it works besides the mess it makes (my project is short enough and only viewed by me, so its not as much of a problem, but its not a GOOD solution).

Is there any way to at least tell After Effects to add the empy seconds it adds to the FRONT instead of at the end? It seems silly to me I can’t treat time like a canvas in photoshop I guess… I guess they just want me to add time, and then grab everything but what I want longer at the beginning and shift it over…. :p

Still, thanks, I’ve def. tried the other methods out and will be using some of them in the future, though i think from now on any longer animations I make I’m going to split into ‘scenes’ so this isn’t as much of a problem. Easier to have the same object existing in 2 larger movie clips then have to deal with moving every little element to add time and all.

[Darkdaven]

Hey, your motion panel actually did help.. I guess this should have been in Final Cut forums instead of after effects… I’m newer to final cut but now that I know about that my problem is solved. Thank you so much!

[Darkdaven]

Hey, thanks for the advice, but after posting I already changed the settings and re-exported in after effects… (guess I should have waited for an easier time, huh). I do have one more question though:

I changed the settings and re-exported… but I can’t really tell if its still a bit squished. I was curious if I need to change the compositions nested inside of my composition to non-square pixels or if I should just make the main composition non-square (I went through and change them all to non-square, and I’m curious whether thats making it double-correct and squish itself).

Thanks!