Joey Foreman
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In the Project pane, drag the footage down to the Make Comp icon. The clip will appear squished in the Composition window. This is because the Composition window defaults to displaying the footage without pixel aspect ratio correction.
Now open the View Options from the drop down menu at the upper right of the comp window, and check Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction. It will display at the “correct” aspect ratio now.
Now, since you’re pulling a key, you’ll want to turn that option off when you’re looking at the edges of your pulled key. This is because pixel aspect ratio correction introduces a small amount of edge aliasing which will make your key harder to judge precisely.
This aliasing will not render; it’s just how AE, and other Adobe apps display non-square pixels on your monitor.
Photoshop helpfully reminds you about this; AE doesn’t. -
Are you saying that you have CS3, the other party has CS4, and you want them to download the trial and rebuild the project in the CS3 trial, so that you can open it in your CS3?
If so, I hope it isn’t a very complex project.
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Please let us know exactly which settings you’re using in Media Encoder.
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Forget about dpi. It has nothing to do with video. What you’re probably seeing are compression artifacts.
Don’t render to mpeg from AE. There are much better tools for that. Specifically Adobe Media Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze, or Apple Compressor. -
Why not download the trial for CS4?
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Here’s some reading to do:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7ec9a.html
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Admittedly I don’t quite understand your question, but AE does not do interactivity, if that’s what you’re asking. You need Flash or something else.
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It’s because you’re exporting, rather than rendering. Look up render settings in the manual, as this is a skillset you’ll need for any work you do in AE.
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I think he just wants to turn the masked layer into a still and composite it on top of the other footage.
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What are you viewing the rendered images with? Quicktime player? Have you tried pulling the footage back into AE, and viewing it there?
What resolution are you rendering to, and with what codec?
If you have Quicktime 7 or earlier, and you render to NTSC/DV, you have to go into the video properties and set it to High Quality to view it that way.
If you render out using the Animation codec, it should look fine.