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Cropping trouble
by Johan Tornlund on Dec 10, 2007 at 5:12:56 pm

Hello, I have some trouble with masking and resizing in AE. Here's the deal:

I want to crop my 720x576 footage by half. And then resize it to fit my comp which is 1280x536.
I realize this will distort the image but that is intentional.
However when I choose the "fit to comp" command, only the source footage is resized (5:4) not the masked footage (5:2) leaving me with an ugly black box that fills half the screen.

I can solve this by creating a precomp that "acts" as a mask instead of using a real mask.
But this requires a lot of trial-and-error repositioning and guessing, taking up too much of my time.

Is there any quicker way to solve this problem?

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Cropping trouble by Johan Tornlund on Dec 10, 2007 at 5:12:56 pm
- Re: Cropping trouble by Dave LaRonde on Dec 10, 2007 at 6:28:49 pm
  - Re: Cropping trouble by Johan Tornlund on Dec 10, 2007 at 7:17:19 pm
    - Re: Cropping trouble by Dave LaRonde on Dec 10, 2007 at 8:35:33 pm

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