[Mike Kov]

This might sound like a dumb response but have you tried deleting the old background layer and remaking a new one in it’s place. If it’s not too much work for you?

A few days ago I had some trouble with a video that included 3d layers. Essentially the video showed a book opening it’s cover with a light sort of creating a gloomy mood.
Everything was fine in after effects like i said, but once i had rendered the video and opened it in quicktime, i had this weird problem where the book cover would become 50% transparent (or at least it seemed that way) just before the cover started to open.

I showed it to all the people i knew who had knowledge of after effects and was told that they didn’t know what was up. one guy just suggested deleting and putting the same image back in and it worked completely fine.

Sorry for the long winded tale, just thought that if i gave you an example of it actually working it might seem like a less amateurish response.

Let us know if it made any difference.

[Mike Kov]

Darby thank you so much for your help.
Even though you didn’t understand that last question you still answered it!!
🙂

That’s all i needed to know. If the PAL widescreen will actually play widescreen on TV (just not properly on quicktime, for the reason you have stated) then that’s perfect.

Thanks again for your help

[Mike Kov]

Hey, thanks for the reply, I did as you asked.
I got one of the rendered videos that looked “squashed” when I played it in Quicktime and brought it back into AE.
With the pixel aspect ratio correction on and making sure the footage was interpreted to widescreen, it played like I wanted my widescreen video to play.

So what this means/what you’re saying is, the video is technically in a widescreen format if I played it on a widescreen TV. But it’s quicktime/vlc player etc on my mac that makes the video look squashed?

Also, about the square/non square pixel thing, while there’s nothing wrong with the square pixel format, from what I understand from what you said, the ‘horizontal resampling’ that would be done on the square pixel format, would be similar to what Quicktime was doing to my PAL D1/DV Widescrren video, but resampling it vertically?