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Stretch Specifies the size of your rendered movie. Select Lock Aspect To if you want to
retain the existing frame aspect ratio when stretching the frame size. Select Low Stretch
Quality when rendering tests, and select High Stretch Quality when rendering a final
movie.
Crop Used to trim or add pixels to the edges of the rendered movie. You can specify the
number of pixels to be added or subtracted from the top, left, bottom, and right sides of
the movie. Type positive values to crop, and type negative values to add pixels.
Note: By adding one pixel to the top of a rendered movie with field rendering, you can
change the field-rendering order. See "Making a movie smaller than the rendered compo-
sition" on page 300.
Audio Output Specifies the sample rate, sample depth (8 Bit or 16 Bit), and playback
format (Mono or Stereo). Choose a sample rate that corresponds to the capability of the
output format. Choose an 8-bit sample depth for playback on the computer, and a 16-bit
sample depth for compact disc and digital audio playback or for hardware that supports
16-bit playback.
Introducing 3:2 pulldown
If you are creating output for film that's been transferred to video or if you want to
simulate a film look for animation, use 3:2 pulldown. Footage items that were originally
film transferred to video and had 3:2 pulldown removed when imported into After Effects
can be rendered back to video with 3:2 pulldown reintroduced. You can set the intro-
duction of 3:2 pulldown using any of five different phases. For more information on 3:2
pulldown, see "Removing 3:2 pulldown from video transferred from film" on page 45.
Note: It is important to match the phase of a segment that had 3:2 pulldown removed if it
will be edited back into the video footage it came from.
To introduce 3:2 pulldown:
1 In the Render Queue window, select the render item and then click the underlined
Render Settings name.
2 For Field Render, choose a field order.
3 For 3:2 Pulldown, select a phase.
4 Select other settings as appropriate, and then render.
Creating and using output module templates
You can create templates that save commonly used output module settings. These
templates appear in the Output Module pop-up menu in the Render Queue window. You
can specify a default output module template for movie rendering and another for
creating a single frame. You can also save all output module settings templates to a single
file to use on another computer.
To set the default output module template:
1 Choose Edit > Templates > Output Module.
2 To select a default template to be used when creating movies, select a template for
Movie Default. To select a default template to be used when creating a single frame, select
a template for Frame Default.
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