Adobe Media Encoder "expands" my video from it's original size

When I export an XDCAM HD422 file (as an .mxf) that has scaled or aspected SD footage on the timeline using Media Encoder it changes the aspect or expands the footage so it's out of frame slightly. If I have a mask on the timeline, it gets shifted to the right. None of these problems arise if I don't use Media Encoder. Does anyone have a solution to this....or a workaround?

here are screen shots of my sequence and export settings. Thanks for helping with this.

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I don't think AVCHD is the correct preset... but I use CS5 so not 100% sure
Flip or GoPro video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/437535?tstart=0
- And http://forums.adobe.com/thread/668369?tstart=0
- And http://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2009/12/using_a_flip_minohd_camera_wit.html
- Says to use the XDCAM EX 720p 30p (or 60p?) setting for Flip (maybe GoPro?)

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After playing Youtube go to your temp internet
files and copy the file to HDD which is a mp4.
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Computer Environment:
MacBook Pro Early 2011
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB
Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
SSD with 512GB; about 81GB are still free
Mavericks OS X 10.9.5
Adobe Mastercollection CS6
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I uninstalled the Cloud, which I kept for making updates; I also uninstalled everything from Adobe (CS6 mastercollection)
I ran the Cloud cleaner tool
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I (re)installed Quicktime 7.6.6*
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tried to open AME without luck
removed the Quicktimebundle once more to open AME (worked)
opened PP to check if I could export in queue: AME does not open by itself, still.
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HarleyTDavis's post #30 of this discussion Are the ProRes codec and .MOV file no longer supported?
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Windows XP (from distant memory): C:\Documents and Settings\<<yourUserName>>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder\<<yourCreativeSuiteVersion>>
Mac: <<partition>>\Library\Preferences\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder\<<yourCreativeSuiteVersion>>
*On Windows 7 & Vista, if you can't see the App Data folder, you'll need to set Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders: Tools>Folder Options>View tab.
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1. You have an archive-quality file to come back to in the future.
2. You can use AE's full power to render.
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Frank VA wrote:
You guys fighting mp4 as a standard, forcing us to an additional product, or what?
They aren't fighting MP4 as a standard, in fact, when Adobe folks pop in here and answer questions, that's often their recommendation for delivery codec.
Frank VA wrote:
Seems like you only did what was best for you. Thanks for showing us who's boss.
Listen, I understand your frustration. Knocking out a quick compressed file from AE for client review is handy.
However, maintaining the h.264 encoding in AE took up development time. There are only so many person-hours per week for the (relatively tiny) AE team to spend on building each version of AE.
I never liked AE's h.264 encoding - AME has always done a superior job. Since we have AME to do our encoding, I would rather the AE team focus their effort on improving AE as a compositing and motion graphics tool rather than as an encoding tool.
Again, I get the frustration. I can see where it feels like they are doing what's good for them and not us, but I think, in the long run, this way is better for us. Right now, the majority of the AE team is working on making AE faster to work with and faster to render. The sooner we get a relatively bug-free version of that, the better! (Especially for folks on Mac OSX Yosemite who can't RAM preview smoothly in any version of AE).
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