Conforming SD sequence to HD
by John Hunter
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Aug 25, 2008 at 11:33:15 pm
I am editing a short film using 1080 HD footage. For some reason I began an SD 720 x 480 sequence and have made a rough cut of the film. It's about 4 minutes and I've made a lot of cuts so far. I want to be able to take my existing sequence and drop it into a new HD sequence.
I've already tried starting a new sequence with the exact presets of the raw footage and dropping my sequence into it. This messed up the aspect ratio considerably. Everything was extremely squashed and askew. Does anyone have any ideas on doing this without having to start a new HD sequence and manually conform each edit via timecode?
Re: Conforming SD sequence to HD by Connie Simmons on Aug 27, 2008 at 10:10:23 pm
Hi, John. Before I had a fast raid storage system, I had a situation where I edited a program first in HD downconverted to SD and then had to reconnect the HD to the sequence.
I created a new HD sequence, and copied the SD sequence into it. I then removed the drive with the SD footage and all that remained was the HD footage. I directed my FCP project to the HD footage and it linked up (same name for the clips, of course).
However, some of the clips in my timeline did have weird aspect rations and sizes (225 for the size I think and aspect ration of -12.5 or -33, I can't remember).
I took one clip and fixed the aspect ration and size, then selected all of the other clips, right clicked for Paste Attribute, Basic Motion, and then they all had the right aspect ration and size.
Re: Conforming SD sequence to HD by John Hunter on Aug 27, 2008 at 10:31:51 pm
Thanks Connie!
What I figured out was to create an HD sequence (1280 x 1080) (16:9), paste the SD sequence into it and while everything was selected, right click and "remove attributes": basic motion and distort. I then had to change my pixel aspect ratio to HD (1280 x 1080), and everything automatically corrected itself! I was so happy!
