HDV to DV back to HDV?

[Jeff Carpenter]

Well, first, for next time just work in HD no matter what the client wants. When you’re done you can always export an SD or an HD version from that sequence. This way, as you’ve found, you’re stuck with SD.

But that doesn’t help you with this problem. For this, I would usually suggest a cut/paste action, but you’ve already tried that. Explain what “messed up” means when you’re talking about the footage. Maybe we can figure out what’s happening there.

[Robert Schwieger]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

What I meant by “messed up” was- when I copy/paste work from a DV sequence into the HDV sequence the footage is squished in the canvas. I’m assuming it will export the same or can I adjust the canvas settings?

Also I’d tried copy and Pasting the footage and then clicking on an individual clip and selecting

[David Hames]

If you’ve done a lot of motion tab effects, like resizing, this won’t help, but try this.

Create a new sequence that matches your original HDV footage.

Go to your original sequence, select all the clips, Copy them then paste them into the new HDV sequence.

Select all the clips in the new HDV sequence, then go under the MODIFY menu and select “Conform to Sequence” I think it should do it.

If it doesn’t, UNDO and “try scale to sequence.”

If those options are greyed out it’s because there are transitions that are highlighted also.

Another option (if you don’t have a lot of motion tab effects) is to select everything in the HDV timeline and under the EDIT menu choose REMOVE ATTRIBUTES. When an option dialogue comes up check Basic Motion and check Distort, that will return everything to its original HDV size and aspect ratio.

I hope that helps.

David

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