Cropped layers in After Effects

[jayt26923432]

When I bring my layers from Photoshop across to after effects, the ones that are off screen get cropped- here's an example-

This is the layer once brought into after effects and moved from it original off screen position- The left of the ship is cut in half and the rest is missing.

This is the missing rear end of the ship in Photoshop before I imported it into after effects .

I spoke to some people at my uni course and they think that the layers just need to be centered before importing- that's fine and I can do that but it would save me some massive amount of time If not needing to.

Any help would be appreciated, cheers.

[Mylenium]

AE always uses the document size and uses the rasterized layer preview even for Smart Objects. This is as it is designed.

Mylenium

[jayt26923432]

Ah okay so it is just as simple as having all layers centered before importing- well that's fine, thank you for the help good sir!

[Roei Tzoref]

I am not sure why Mylenium wrote that Ae always uses the document size - this is not true.

also, the layer does not need to be centered for it to come as not cropped. and of course this would damage a workflow if this was the case.

when you import a multilayered document to Ae, you have a choice to import it as a composition with the layers at layer size or document size. I would say that that when importing PS multilayered document , 95% of the times you want to use "Composition - retain layer sizes"

all the information you need to know about importing files to Ae is written here:

Preparing and importing still images in After Effects

[jayt26923432]

Thanks for the reply man,

Unfortunately I'm aware of these options before importing and neither make a difference to the scene  

[Roei Tzoref]

This is not supposed to happen. If your Ps layer has more pixels in Ps, this should crossover completly without crop and you don't have to center them.

If you can, show a video capture step by step or screen shot. This is a user error of some sort.

If you Can, share the project file with assetes

[jayt26923432]

Okay cool, I'm rendering some scenes at the moment that will take up most of the day but I may take some screenshots later.

Thanks again