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Change Sequence Settings
Ok.. I know it’s supposed to be not possible but I need even a workaround or hack.
I edited several dance recital videos and sold them to students. I offered in two flavors: DVD or Blu-Ray. Most of the orders came in DVD so I opted to capture the footage in SD, and edit in SD. If anyone ordered Blu-Ray I’d just make the footage offline, then recapture as HD.
Well I have 2 Blu-Ray orders. No problem, I think. I capture the footage in HD and it replaces my SD movies as HD. I look at my edits and its obvious that the footage is now in HD. Only problem is my sequences are still in SD. I think, that’s simple. I just need to change the sequence settings.
So I right click the sequence setting to change the resolution, and the resolution is grayed out. The editing mode is grayed out. I can’t change the resolution and thus right now, it looks like I need to redo my edits. I know there’s the option of copying all the clips and pasting onto a new sequence but i have a multi-cam setup and nested sequences.
Are there any workarounds to this?? I’d rather not need to re-edit my videos.
Thanks.
Arvin -
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I wonder if it would work to make a new sequence with the HD settings you want and then drop your entire SD sequence (with the recaptured HD clips) inside the new sequence.
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You can create a new SD sequence and drag the HD sequence into it.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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And if you are in CS3, create a new HD project, then import the old project into it.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
It won’t work. I tried it just now. The SD sequence shows up as much lower res. You can try to stretch it to frame size but then you just get a blurry image.
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I’m using CS4. I’ll try to save as CS3 and try this option. It seems weird that you can’t just change from SD to HD.
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You mean after you replaced the footage with the HD version ?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Yup.
I made all my .avi files offline, then recaptured them in hi-def. That wasnt a problem at all.
So at this point I have this small 720×480 sequence with hd clips. Premiere crops my hd clips and shows whatever fits in the 720×480 window.
Typically I could just copy all the clips and paste them to a new sequence. One that is HD and problem should be solved. The problem is that I used a multi-cam setup and my final edit includes a nested sequence. If I copy and paste those on a new HD sequence they still appear in SD.
I tried the install cs3 option, but my pc won’t let me have cs3 and cs4 installed at the same time. I can try uninstalling cs4, but that’s alot of work.
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First, forget about CS3, you won’t be able to open the CS4 project.
I wasn’t very clear in my last post.
1- Replace all clips in the original sequence with the SD versions.
2- Create new HD sequence.
3- Select and copy all clips in the original sequence (Ctrl+A then Ctrl+c)
4- Paste all clips in the new HD sequence, and only then, replace with HD clips. They should now fit the HD frame perfectly at full rez.
You can also drag the old sequence into the new one, that will create a nested clip, which can avoid issue if tracks don’t match.
Cheers,
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
hey Vince,
Have you gotten this to work? I can’t for some reason. When I do this I get a small 720×480 video inside a 1440×900 frame. So theres a small picture with black all around it. It also crops the image to what fits in a 720×480 window. Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Please keep em coming.
Arvin -
Hi Arvin,
Yes, I tried it again with DVC Pro.
So just to confirm one last time, copy SD clips to new HD Timeline, select one of the clip, right click “Reveal in Project”. Then right click that clip in Project manager and select “Replace with Footage”, then choose your HDV replacement.
If that doesn’t work, try renaming the HD files to something else, but it should work that way.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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