I've got some Advent Children footage here that is merrily playing along when, suddenly, it squishes itself horizontally by just a tad, then unsquishes, then squishes again. I only notice this when I export the movie from Premiere and play it back somewhere else: WMM, VDM, etc. Further, this is only occurring with footage taken from a specific scene (Sephiroth in the flames) that happens to be below two other layers containing clips. I've sliced this flame footage up into three separate clips (within Premiere), so it's all from the same file. No special effects/opacity/motion tweaks have been applied to the footage in this problem area. There are transitions, but that's par for the course and shouldn't be a problem. This squishing is not occurring anywhere else in my project, which contains far worse compositing scenarios.
Exportation experimentation produced the following results:
1. Still squishes when I export a movie of the Sephiroth footage, unclipped, at the same place on the timeline with all other layers' visibility turned off.
2. No squish when I move the Sephiroth clips somewhere else on the timeline.
3. No squish when I physically remove the footage that is overlayed on the Sephiroth clips OR move the Sephiroth clips above the other footage.
My current theory: The footage overlayed on Seph in the flames is interfering with the PAR/DAR of everything underneath, even when it's not technically active in the timeline. I don't know why or how or what to do to stop it, though, and any advice is appreciated.





