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Chaning SD timeline to HD
I’ve got a yearly project that I work on for my employer that slowly evolves over time (shot updates, gfx). I’ve been shooting HD for 3 years now with the Sony EX1. Prior to that, everything was SD, tape based. I’ve been updating an SD timeline with HD clips by dropping the HD (1080) clips onto the timeline and scaling them UP to 50%, which effectively makes them 4×3 by cropping off the sides.
I’m at the point to where I’m ready to make the timelines fully HD. To do it, I created a new HD timeline and copied the specs (such as frames size, pixel aspect ratio, field dominance and compressor settings) over to the SD timeline. I though I could then simply scale the clips up to 100 percent and I’ve got a fully HD timeline.The problem is when I do this, the HD clips are slightly squished vertically so they don’t fully fill the HD space from top to bottom. The only way to make them fit is to manually adjust each clip. There’s gotta be an easier way to change these timelines without having to basically rebuild from scratch, isn’t there? Please?
Todd
Mac G5 2×2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
OS Version 10.6.6
Final Cut Pro Studio 2
After Effects CS4
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4d r12
Sony EX-1 -
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Make certain the distort parameter in the Motion tab is set at zero.
David Roth Weiss
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Wow, that did it, thanks a ton!
You just saved my hind-end hours of work.
Long live the cow (and you too)TVS
Mac G5 2×2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
OS Version 10.6.6
Final Cut Pro Studio 2
After Effects CS4
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4d r12
Sony EX-1 -
I was just doing the copy and paste attributes which works great. I paste the “Basic Motion” and “Distort” attributes and it works great
Mac G5 2×2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
OS Version 10.6.6
Final Cut Pro Studio 2
After Effects CS4
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4d r12
Sony EX-1
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