After Effects is cropping photo sequences imported as footage and brought into ACR

When I bring in a photo sequence into After Effects using File>Import>File and import the photos as footage the photos come into ACR as 16:9 instead of 3:2 (how they were shot.)
For instance, all of the photos in my sequence are 5760x3840. When i bring them all into photoshop they maintain that size, but for some reason when I import them as footage in AE, when the ACR dialog box comes up, the photos are now cropped to 5760x3240. Why is this happening?

Presumably it tries to be all too helpful and overlays the last used comp aspect ratio for preview. In turn this means you would have to create a 3:2 comp, so it becomes the last active setting. No idea, realy. I barely use ACR in Photoshop, much less in AE, since I only need it when I get baby or wedding photos from friends every now and then and otherwise we don't work with RAW/ DNG sequences...
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