Thank you both for the input. I always render uncompressed Avi from AE. To clarify, for your last post Ted, I will be editing a 1080p timeline in premiere with the AE exported uncompressed avi’s, be it 720 or 1080. But now, I will take your advice and work at 1080, though I have one more question now: If I were to zoom in on a 1080p scene via AE, will I get pixelation even though my final output will be 720p? I hope that’s clear, but just to clarify a little more, I want to make sure if I do virtual camera tracking with the 1080p footage (hence pixelizing at 1080), will that show in the end after exporting the final project out from Premiere at 720?
Also, was I wrong in assuming youtube doesn’t accept .flv anymore? I’d love to try, because I hate the artifacting with the H.264 and youtube. The original H.264 looks fine, but youtube slaughters the footage.