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How can I apply distortion to entire timeline?
I was watching a 2 hour and 30 minute long program my editor put together last week and noticed, somehow, that ALL of our 16×9 footage looked “thin”. I checked the settings and discovered that every single clip has a -33.33 distortion applied to it. I haven’t figured out how this happened yet, probably someone made a mistake when digitizing and the editor just wasn’t paying close enough attention. Either way, if I go through the clips and change the distortion to 0.00 then it looks just fine and is in the proper 16×9 aspect ratio. However, my show is over 2 hours long with hundreds of edits and we put together 4 different version sequences of it for a total of about 9 hours of clips and thousands of edits I would have to change. Is there a way to select the whole timeline and apply the distortion change to all clips at the same time?
Thanks for any assistance.
Don Hertz
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Pretty easy actually, copy the clip you’ve changed the parameters with, then select all others, control click on one, and select “Paste Attributes”… Select distort, and they all get changed…
But in your case, what happens if you open that sequence’s settings (cmd+zero) and click on the anamorphic checkbox?
Jerry
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