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Converting 16×9 to 4×3 and back again
I’ve been editing anamorphic footage in a 4×3 timeline to work with a 4×3 monitor. I want to edit it in a 16×9 sequence now . I created an anamorphic sequence but when I nest the old timeline in the anamorphic it looks like it retains the 4×3 characteristics. How do I get it back to the format (16×9) it was originally shot and captured in?
Thanks
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In the new sequence, right-click the nested track and pick “open in viewer.”
In the viewer, open the Motion tab. Find “Distort” and click the arrow by it. Change “Aspect Ratio” to 0.
That should do it.
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thanks Jeff, but its not working. When I drag my 4×3 sequence into a 16×9 and twirl down the distort, it already is at 0 and my image is horizontally stretched way out of proportion.
Perhaps I’m not clear. The footage was shot in anamorphic, captured into FCP through my AJA LS as anamorphic clips. I then created a 4×3 sequence and dragged all the anamorphic footage into that. edited in a 4×3 timeline so that the program could be viewed letterbox on a regular tv. I now want to convert the footage back to anamorphic for the online to get a final anamorphic digibeta.
The online house said that I’d get the full resolution of the anamorphic footage by doing this so that I could have an anamorphic version (not letterboxed) for widescreen tv.
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Duplicate your 4:3 sequence and rename the duplicate anamorphic or whatever. hit apple-0 to bring up the sequence settings and tick the anamorphic box. then select all the clips in your anamorphic timeline, right click (or option click) to remove attributes and then select the distort option when the dialogue box pops up. you should be good to go with your footage, any titles/matte colors/etc that you created within fcp might have to be reapplied to account for the new aspect ratio. If something gets royally messed up, then you always have the 4:3 original sequence (that’s why you duplicated it in the beginning).
Jeremy
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