I am trying to import widescreen footage from a canon GL1 into After Effects and then back into Final Cut Pro.
The GL1 squashes the images vertically in camera. Final Cut will then recognize the 16:9 format and display the images correctly in its various viewing options.
The trouble starts when importing this footge into After Effects. The footage squashes again. I have been told that After Effects works with Square pixels so that it displays the image as sqashed again. I have been able to preview what the images should look like with the correct pixel aspect ratio option in the Composition options bar. It looks good, even when comparing it with the correct screen ration of my Final Cut Viewer.
The problem really comes when exporting from After Effects and then importing the footage back into Final Cut. The Images remain squashed. It seems that this should not be a problem. Could this be a problem with the Quicktime.mov file I am using to export. I am clicking the current size option in Quicktime. Is there another video file option to use.
If not quicktime, is this just the way the file will stay until printed to video. This would not seem to make sense because FCP recognizes the widescreen but I am trying it.
One last thing. In my final Cut Browser,under individual video files, toggle to the right, pixel aspect ratios are dislayed, as well as a checkbox for anamorphic are displayed. My original files are CCIR-601 and the anamorphic box is checked. Files exported from After Effects will have the same aspect ratio, but will not be checked anamorphic. I have no idea how to interact with this anamorphic option.
The GL1 squashes the images vertically in camera. Final Cut will then recognize the 16:9 format and display the images correctly in its various viewing options.
The trouble starts when importing this footge into After Effects. The footage squashes again. I have been told that After Effects works with Square pixels so that it displays the image as sqashed again. I have been able to preview what the images should look like with the correct pixel aspect ratio option in the Composition options bar. It looks good, even when comparing it with the correct screen ration of my Final Cut Viewer.
The problem really comes when exporting from After Effects and then importing the footage back into Final Cut. The Images remain squashed. It seems that this should not be a problem. Could this be a problem with the Quicktime.mov file I am using to export. I am clicking the current size option in Quicktime. Is there another video file option to use.
If not quicktime, is this just the way the file will stay until printed to video. This would not seem to make sense because FCP recognizes the widescreen but I am trying it.
One last thing. In my final Cut Browser,under individual video files, toggle to the right, pixel aspect ratios are dislayed, as well as a checkbox for anamorphic are displayed. My original files are CCIR-601 and the anamorphic box is checked. Files exported from After Effects will have the same aspect ratio, but will not be checked anamorphic. I have no idea how to interact with this anamorphic option.
