Exporting From AE Size Problem

[Dustin Wadsworth]

I'm really new to AE and I'm not the best at wrapping my head around settings and such.
So I'm exporting video from AE and bringing it into Sony Vegas but I get little black bars on the top an bottom. You can see an example here
I'm exporting the footage as an .avi and then I select settings/ compression type DV/ DVCPRO - NTSC and then under compressor I drag the quality slider to best.

Is this the best way to export video?

That's all I'm doing and I have a feeling that I'm just missing a step somewhere.

 

[madhorizons]

Are you doing file-->export or actually rendering it out?

 

[Dustin Wadsworth]

I'm doing file export. How do I render it out?

 

[MiniMan13]

Ctrl - Shift - /
to open your render que

 

[Dustin Wadsworth]

Cool thanks. So I rendered with that but I still have the bars at the top and bottom just like before.
Here's my render settings:

So why would I be getting bars?

 

[Arson]

AE works with square pixels and video has a .9 pixel aspect ratio

it looks like a .9 PAR footage that thinks its square pixels

 

[Dustin Wadsworth]

So I'm poking around trying to figure out how to tell AE that I have .9 pixel aspect ratio. I'm really new to AE so could someone kindly point to how to do this?

 

[Dustin Wadsworth]

OK I found it under composition settings, but it is correct, my pixel aspect ratio is set to D1/DV NTSC (0.9)

 

[Dustin Wadsworth]

Figured it out!

It was Vegas that didn't know it was .9 PAR.

Thanks for the help!!!

 

[madhorizons]

Glad you figured it out....

Additional info... in AE, if your source file is 0.9 PAR or 1.2 PAR, you can right-click (ctrl-click) on the footage after it's imported into your project and do "interpret footage" to force AE to those settings.