Hi John,

I have been using Xara (since V1.5) for video in Premiere and After Effects for a while years now. I just create a 720 x 480 pixels box in Xara when working in NTSC output mode (export at 96 dpi for drafts and 300 dpi for final plates) and let After Effects resize it using the "interpret fottage as:" option. Xara's transparent PNG work well for creating masks in addition for plates.

See this thread: http://talkgraphics.com/groupee/foru...753#7631991753

Since this thread, I have used it exclusively for a dozen projects without any issues. BTW: colors do not shift and colors go back and forth without issue.

Flash is pickier so the other solution talks to this a lot better. I think that if you do not want mess with 96 dpi/72 xyz, you can export the box from xara at different sizes since you know that the NTSC aspect ratio is 0.9. Adobe's helpf for After Effects offers a good roundup of aspect ratio for differnet output types:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/322300.html

Hope this helps.

Milt