[Joey Foreman]

Did you hit the Render button in the Render Queue?

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

The best way to resize a comp is with the Scale Composition script included with AE.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

Something like the Set Matte effect?

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

I’m afraid I can’t help any further with your issue. I haven’t brought any material into AE as ProRes 4444, because I haven’t needed to bring any footage into AE with an alpha channel. Is this why you’re using 4444?
It makes sense to render from AE with 4444, if you need the alpha, but I don’t know why you’re importing it with that codec.

Please read this FCP forum thread, as it may give you some insight as to why ProRes 4444 may be inappropriate for your workflow, particularly this information:

What happens when you convert that to ProRes 4444 is the white get crushed and capped at 98IRE (100IRE is broadcast legal, but you can go over for other mediums), and blacks stop firm at 0 IRE (Again, those limits don’t exist for things not destined for TV). This severly hampers color correction.

I would also suggest that in FCP’s User Preferences > Editing that you set the Imported Still/RGB Video Gamma to 2.22.

If none of this helps, please repost your question so that someone else can take a shot at it.

Best of luck.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

Pretty good for a first go. The page peel effect looks a little wonky, though.

Also, you left the ‘L’ out of “ONLY…”.

Keep it up!

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

The fluid deformation of the limbs and the way the facial features slide up and down make me think that yes, this almost certainly was done with AE and the Puppet Tool.

It’s really not all that tough to use. Here’s a tutorial:

https://www.metacafe.com/watch/885847/puppet_tool_in_adobe_after_effects_cs3/

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

Have you tried enabling Final Cut Studio Compatibility in the Quicktime 7 preferences?

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

Curious as to why you would want a preset for that. It’s one of the simplest operations you can perform in AE. Just scale down your layer.
Are you looking for some sort of stylized frame or border? If so, take a look in the AE Animation Presets.
Specifically, check out Inset Video-Framed

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Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

Sorry about the time it takes to Render, but that’s your computer’s fault, not AE’s.
Forget about the Export option, it’s not the way to produce a movie file.
You have Motion Blur ticked for the layers, but is it enabled for the composition?
And don’t use AE for encoding to x264. Take your full quality rendered file into a separate encoding app like Adobe Media Encoder for that.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

Be sure that Anamorphic is checked for the footage in the FCP Browser column or footage Item Properties.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist