[Emma Assin]

well it’s a short film. it’s for tv mainly i guess! it’d be so much easier if everything was organised into proper pre-sets that work together – i can’t believe that what i’m trying to do is something unusual 🙂

thanks for all the help again!

[Emma Assin]

thank you simon, that’s all very useful advice. i’m going to make a new project in fcp and move all my footage into that, making sure the settings are widescreen and hopefully that will fix things. thanks again!
emma.

[Emma Assin]

my footage was shot at 16:9 in camera and then brought into fcp using the widescreen capture option. it displays perfectly, though i guess the project setting are 4:3, because i see the letterbox during my edit. maybe the thing to do is to keep my ae settings as 4:3 but to insert a fake letterbox using black solids top and bottom? do you think that would work best? really interesting that something so simple should be so complicated to figure out!

[Emma Assin]

thanks for that simon, so i’ve done that, but when i rendered it out i again got the non-widescreen format, no letterbox. and in fcp it fills the comp top to bottom rather than having a letterbox like the rest of my footage. there’s gotta be a way to export this comp so that it matches my widescreen shot footage in fcp without being stretched… ?

[Emma Assin]

thank you simon, i watched your tutorial and it was great, very helpful and i’m sure i’ll be using that technique in the future. what i actually did in the meantime was make my animation a comp. and then masked that comp on my main comp. timeline. works well for this project as i want a lot of different bits of text with individual masks.

i’m a flash user just trying to get my head around ae 🙂 masking is sliiiiightly different heh.

now if i can figure out how to export the whole thing as 16:9 i’ll be laughing 😀

[Emma Assin]

hi – i’m having a similar issue. i have a final cut project that is widescreen, it was all shot in widescreen, i set the settings to widescreen, looks fine. now i’m making the titles for it in after effects and have set the comp. settings to widescreen, but have no letterboxing. when i export, no letterboxing, just a full-size clip. weird. where am i going wrong?