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1440 timeline vs. 1280 timeline-Possible BIG Screwup
Okay..so another person edited our HD show on an HDV Timeline with 1440 X1080 using half HDV footage (so she could edit in realtime) and mixed about 35-40% of HD footage (at 1280 X 1080). The problem is that the HD footage was automatically sized up to 112.3% to fill up the screen. My thought is that it should have been edited in 1280X1080…so if anything, the HDV footage would be scaled down. Now I’m trying to figure out a way to move the entire project to a 1280 timeline. If I copy the entire 30min project to a 1280 timeline, and scale down the HD 1280 footage, it doesn’t come out right..it still comes out smaller. If I take the original 1280 footage out of the bin and replace the shot, it looks correct. Am I going to have to Re-edit EVERYTHING that was shot in HD? This would take forever considering NOTHING is Logged (She doesn’t log anything-just uses capture now for a whole tape) Is there any other work-around? Thanks.
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Heavens no!!!! Don’t re-edit!!!!! You just need to change the distort values along with the scale values.
There is a really great short cut to help you out here: PASTE ATTRIBUTES!!!! I would vote for it as the biggest time saver short cut.
First, sort your sequence by putting all of the footage that is 1440 on one track and all of the 1280 on another.
Now paste your sequence into a 1280 timeline. Everything should look pretty messed up.
Now open up the Motion tab on the first clip of the 1440 track. Does it look right? If not, you might need to change BOTH the scale AND the DISTORT values. Once it looks right, select the clip and hit edit-copy. Now select the rest of the 1440 clips and select edit-paste attributes. Select both the basic motion and the distort boxes and select ok. It now pastes those values on all of the 1440 clips.
Repeat that process for the 1280 clips and you should have things right within a minute or two.
Let us know how it works out for you.
-Russ
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What kind of footage is 1280×1080? DVCProHD? If so, that is meant to be the same aspect ratio as HDV (16:9). So as long as they both fill the screen, you didn’t do anything wrong. Just makes sure the pixe aspec in the item properties is set for DVCPro 1080.
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wow…didn’t notice distort was on as well. Thanks..works great. I was pretty ticked when I noticed the scale. Couldn’t believe the editor completed the whole show and never noticed this. Explains why they were talking about how much better the HDV footage looked over the HD stuff. Thanks again.
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[Sean ONeil] “What kind of footage is 1280×1080? DVCProHD? If so, that is meant to be the same aspect ratio as HDV (16:9). So as long as they both fill the screen, you didn’t do anything wrong. Just makes sure the pixe aspec in the item properties is set for DVCPro 1080.”
HDV can be either 1440×1080 or 1280×1080 depending on whether it’s 1080i/50 or 1080i/60.
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Great posting and advice Russ!
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