After Effects clips are distorted in import

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After Effects clips are distorted in import

I've seen a few earlier threads on this, but they didn't seem to help me. My proeject settings are the same in both FCP and AFX, I am not using square pixels-- yet all clips I make in AFX and import are visibly squeezed.

Help!

Posted on Feb 1, 2006 8:54 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 2, 2006 6:37 AM in response to Seth Sherwood

What codec are you using and how are your clips distorted?

Patrick

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Answer 2

Wes Plate

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Feb 2, 2006 8:05 AM in response to Patrick Sheffield

And are you in PAL or NTSC?
and are you in DV or D1?
and is your output 4x3 or widescreen?
and what are the dimensions of the comp you're rendering in AE?

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Answer 3

Feb 2, 2006 8:07 AM in response to Patrick Sheffield

Squeezed or squished? Huge difference in how we'd approach assisting you on this.

bogiesan

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Answer 4

Feb 2, 2006 9:13 AM in response to Patrick Sheffield

Here's the full story:

My FCP sequence settings are:

Frame Size: 720x480 (NTSC DV 3:2)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC- CCIR601 / DV

My AFX settings are:
NTSC DV 720 x 480
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)

When the AXF clip is imported into AFX it is stetched vertically, while the wdith appears to be correct. It is slight, and woulddn't even be thaat noticible if it weren't for the fact that I am working with CIRCLES!

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Answer 5

Feb 2, 2006 9:20 AM in response to Seth Sherwood

Could it be something to do with the fact that FCP uses .89 as it's aspect as opposed to .9? This can affect clips moved back and forth between FCP and Motion...

Patrick

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Wes Plate

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Feb 2, 2006 10:42 AM in response to Seth Sherwood

Your circles had better look distorted in AE!

In AE turn on "Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction", only then should your circles appear as circles. If your circles are circles in AE in your 720x480 DV/D1 pixel comp and PAR Correction is OFF, then you're working wrong.

Are your circles created in Photoshop in 720x480 square pixel files? That'd be bad. Instead create the circles in 720x540 files, then drop those into your 720x480 DV/D1 comp.

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Answer 7

Feb 2, 2006 11:29 AM in response to Wes Plate

Awesome! For the photoshop elements This has done the trick-- thank you very much.

Another element though was done in illustrator. How should I correct for EPS files since it doesn't place via document size, but just the art?

I wasn't using the correction preview and was manually correcting them-- so now wonder when the actual conversion happened it was still off.

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Wes Plate

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Feb 2, 2006 11:36 AM in response to Seth Sherwood

AE should handle the Illustrator files correctly.

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Answer 9

Feb 2, 2006 1:18 PM in response to Wes Plate

Yes-- you are right. the distortion i was seeing is due to the fact that I had tried to correct it visually like the other one, before i knew about the preview mode.

thanks again!

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Wes Plate

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Feb 2, 2006 1:42 PM in response to Seth Sherwood

Can this thread be marked answered and any particularly helpful posts be marked as such?

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Answer 11

Feb 6, 2006 3:01 PM in response to Seth Sherwood

yaaY! thanks you guys!

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Feb 6, 2006 4:09 PM in response to Seth Sherwood

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