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Sequence Setting and Video Properties Don’t Match
I shot video (1920×1080) that I then compressed to Apple ProRes 422 1920×1080. I inadvertently edited this video in my default sequence setting of 720×480 NTSC. (The frame rate was also different! Pro Res 23.98 and NTSC 29.97)
There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to convert the sequence since the sequence settings doesn’t offer 1920×1080, even when you customize — the pixel ratio is off. And every time I try to export — it just looks all wrong with the 1920×1080 — it looks stretched. I’ve tried copying and pasting into a new sequence but I don’t get the prompt to change the sequence to match my video…
Help would be MUCH appreciated.
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Take one of the clips from your bin, start a new sequence, and dunk it in there. FCP should ask you if you want to match the seq settings to the clip, hit yes. Once that clip is in, delete it from the timeline.
Copy your old timeline into the new timeline and right click while all the clips are selected and remove Distort and Basic Motion (assuming you have done no distoring on your own to video, or any stills you migth have in your sequence or other graphics). You may still hve to fiddle with the motion tab of each clip, but usually this will work.
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[Daniela Schrier] “I’ve tried copying and pasting into a new sequence but I don’t get the prompt to change the sequence to match my video… “
The message will only come up when drag a clip from the bin not with copy and paste. Drop a clip, click yes, delete then cut and paste.
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