Black bars on the side of animation will be the death of me...

[evanc1244373]

Hey Hey...I know this questions has come up again and again. I've read the threads, applied the solutions and ended up like the rain forest..stumped . I set out to create a spinning coin. I made it with 3d layers in After Effects. Below I have include my Composition Settings and Export Settings, also a screen shoot of the black bars when it is in Quicktime and a screen shot of it in After Effects. I was thinking maybe because they are 3d layers i may be exporting to the wrong format? Any ideas would be epic! Cheers!

In Quicktime with bars

In After Effects no bars

Comp Settings

Export Settings

[Roei Tzoref]

import your video back to Ae. create a composition from that video. do you see black bars? if not, your video is fine.

[evanc1244373]

Roei thanks for the response.

I imported the video back into AE and created a composition from it. Unfortunately, it still had the black bars.

[Dave_LaRonde]

It's the codec you're using -- h.264.  It only encodes properly in certain horizontal & vertical dimensions.  Your comp dimensions don't match any standard dimensions.

The fix: render in a different codec.  I like quicktime movies in Photo JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG or ProRes 422 (if you have it) codecs.

[evanc1244373]

Hey Dave thanks for the input.

I exported the video as a Quicktime movie in both ProRes422 and png. Unfortunately, the bars where still there as well as some blurring on the coin, see below. Export settings are below as well.

[evanc1244373 · Accepted solution]

I ended up just painting the black boxes frame by frame in photoshop. Worked like a charm!

[Dave_LaRonde]

Why did you render interlaced from pro res?