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It is render time. My problem here is that I have tried rendering all our shots out in AfterEffects and then putting them into Premiere for editing and sound, but they do not fit. The first reason for this is the aspect ratio we rendered in. I picked a non standard aspect ratio because it worked better for the client, but that was dumb, because it didn't work in Premiere then. Dumb.

The second reason for this is the codec I kept using. I kept using apple intermediate codec, which worked fine and looked great until you put it into something else, like Premiere and AfterEffects, where it basically squishes the video. Again, my fault. Dumb.

So I tried a couple of other codecs, because I still couldn't remember the right one, and kept having the same problem. In the end I asked someone and they told me straight away. I should have just done that in the first place. So while this was going on I'd been doing all the editing in AfterEffects anyway, which is a long and laborious process when you have many audio tracks and shots to deal with at once. When adding in extra tracks things often go slightly out of sync, which is way frustrating. There was also a problem with the frame rate of the piece as I animated it. I did it in 24 frames per second like an idiot. This meant that when I put it into AfterEffects things were at slightly different speeds to how they were animated, meaning I had to stretch out some of the audio. It fits pretty well in the end but it's not perfect.

OK, so now the actual film is finished. It is finished. Properly. Well, not properly, now there's the broadcast criteria to fulfill. And they're dumb. More on that next time...