Problems with anamorphic in after effects...HELP!

I've just been given the job of designing a title sequence.The problem is that it's been shot in anamorphic.My question is how do I design a title sequence when I have been given the footage in anamorphic which I have to stretch out to fit the 1920x1080 project composition settings,design the titles and then pop it back to fit the original format for export?All my design work will go to waste as the final sequence will consist of bunched up text and obviously look terrible.There MUST be a simple answer to this problem....

There MUST be a simple answer to this problem....
There is a simple answer indeed.
Here it is:
The highlighted button in the Comp panel enables Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) Correction.
So, instead of stretching the footage horizontally, you create a Composition with the same frame aspect and Pixel Aspect Ratio as your source footage (just drag the clip to the New Comp button in the project panel and AE will automate this) and then enable PAR correction and After Effects will give you a corrected (deanamorphized) preview so you won't see it squeezed at all on a computer monitor. When you export it, it will look squeezed until you take it to the target video application. Any professional video application will handle this correctly.Millions of people do this every day, since non-square pixels are still dominant among the most popular video formats.
Even Photoshop has had support for non-square pixels (and PAR correction in the document panel) since CS (ie. Photoshop 8.0).
Note that when you turn on PAR correction (just like when you use odd magnification levels) AE switches to a draft filtering mode, which makes type and other elements look a bit jagged. Don't worry, it's just a preview.
The ideal solution, and the one video professionals rely on, is adding video output hardware to your computer, so you can connect a professional video monitor. After Effects can provide a live preview using such a set-up.
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