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Changing settings of existing sequence in Adobe Premire pro
Hello everyone,
Ever wanted to change existing sequence settings in a Premiere pro project? If yes maybe I can share this solution here because I couldn’t find any other anywhere, and this one seems to work perfectly.
The standard way to do this is importing Premiere project in After Effects and change the composition settings, save as Premiere project and open again in Premiere pro. So far so good… It works fine in simple projects but when we get to the HD multicam project things get a bit complicated.
First of all if you are going to do a multicam project it is essential to convert your HD footage into something low resolution. I use DV PAL AVI so the editing remains smooth and fast.
When I am done editing I want to replace footage back to my original HD from camera.
With all footage replaced to HD, all I have to do is change sequence settings to match the footage dimensions. Now this step is probably impossible without getting our hands dirty with code 🙂To do this I have to open my .prproj file in a text editor (i use jEdit) and search-replace all the instances of DV PAL dimensions in this file.
For DV PAL find 0,0,720,576 and replace with 0,0,1920,1080
For pixel aspect ratio to be “square pixels” find 1024,702 and replace with 1,1
Now save .prproj file and give it another name so you keep the original in case something went wrong. When you open modifyed .prproj file in Premiere again all DV PAL sequences should be HD (1920×1080).
Any comments/suggestions are welcome.
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4 Replies
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TRied coping and pasting the HD content of the old sequence into a new HD sequence?
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Of course, it works until there is a multicam sequence. Multicam edit always refers to the source sequence and if that one is not HD the new will not be HD.
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Thank you, Yerb! Your tip saved my day!
I’ve also tried Opt-drag workaround of new HD source sequence on-to a new destination HD sequence (acording to Alex Udell workaround in another thread) but clips in a destination multicam sequence are loosing their “Multicam-Enable” setting 🙁
P.S. That’s insane that Adobe ignored the issue with sequence settings change 🙁
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You are a gentleman and a scholar… Thanks for this post. I had a different sequence setting for my proxy multicam edit so I just searched and replaced that dimension with the 1080p setting.
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