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Anamorphic Sequence Question
Using 16×9 clips which were all captured in anamorphic mode, we’ve edited a sequence. But we neglected to check the “anamorphic” box under sequence settings when we created the sequence. This will work fine, I think, for our program when aired in letterbox mode, but will not allow for a full screen 16 x 9 display from a DVD if we make one.
Is there a way, short of re-editing the whole sequence, to make the sequence anamorphic?
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4 Replies
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I have no idea if this will work, but here’s what I’d try first:
Select everything on your timeline (Apple-A)
Copy it (Apple-C)
Start a new, anamorphic project
Paste in it (Apple-V)I don’t know if that will work out correctly, but if it does it would certainly be the easiest solution. Give it a try.
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If you know your footage is truly anamorphic, go to sequence>settings and check the anamorphic box. You may have to distort your clips to fit and render but that’s all you gotta do. In DVDSP just use anamorphic settings for the project and simulator and you will get a widexcreen movie.
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The method above won’t work I’m afraid, all the footage in the new sequence will be double anamorphic (letterbox in anamorphic) and there’s no need to create a new project, just a new sequence.
Here’s the right way though.
Copy the timeline. Open the copy, select Apple-0 (zero) to open the sequence settings.
Switch on anamorphic, then select everything on the timeline, control-click and remove attributes.
Select distort and press OK.That’s it.
Provided everything in your timeline is anamorphic, and you’ve not corner pinned or distorted any clips on purpose it will be anamorphic. Job done.
All you have done it to remove all distortions (these make an anamorphic clip into a letterboxed clip when in a 4:3 timeline) from all the items on the timeline.
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Duncan, you’re a genius. Your advice worked. Thank you so much.
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