I have a Dream! Secuences with diffrent aspect ratio…

[Tl Westgate]

No way right now. But you will be able to in CS4.

Maybe you can import all your sequences from Premiere into After Effects and render from there?

— TL

[Eddie Lotter]

[Ariel Brener] “is there a different way to trick it?”
You can do it in CS4, but for CS3 you will need to create a 16:9 project and import the 4:3 project file.

Cheers
Eddie

[Ariel Brener]

As to CS4 – No way I’m going to install CS4 before they correct the birth bugs.

About the other option.
If I create a Temp 16:9 project and import the 4:3 I understand it will allow me to edit in 16:9.

But I want to keep on working on more sequences that are in the 4:3 project.

Tell me this.
If I import project A-(4:3) to project B-(16:9).
And then I’ll make changes on Project A.
Will the changes update in B project?

Am I making myself clear?

If I have to use nested projects – can they be synchronized?

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[Eddie Lotter]

[Ariel Brener] “Will the changes update in B project?”

No, project B has its own copy of what was in project A at the time of import.

[Ariel Brener] “If I have to use nested projects – can they be synchronized?”

Premiere Pro does not have a facility to do so.

Cheers
Eddie

[Ariel Brener]

Thanks,

I think the best solution for me is just to edit the 16:9 in the 4:3 Timeline – and the to copy paste motion effect (with scale set to 75%).
This way I’ll create black bars at top and bottom of the frame.
What do you say?

– And thank god Adobe realized its necessary to be able to create different aspect ratio sequences in the same project.

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[Tl Westgate]

I don’t think that’ll work. I tried importing an edited 16:9 comp into a 4:3 timeline and it crops the image.

— TL

[Jon Barrie]

It’s unclear what you want to output in. If you want to keep the entire output for 4×3 playback, which is what I assume you will be doing, you can edit the 16×9 media in a 4×3 Seq with the scale to frame function. it will force fit the widescreen to be the exact proportions required to fit perfectly with letterboxing. This feature can be switched on to apply to any media added to timeline be default in the Preferences>General tab.
This will also mean that if you needed to make a full 16×9 version of the project and that media you can start a new project in 16×9 and import the project with the letterboxed 16×9 media. Then when opened in 16×9 project it will fit the new shape of the project making the scale to frame fit the widescreen project perfectly.
Don’t actually scale the motion properties having the function on means you can animate it and paste animation from a 4×3 media file and it will work the same as if the scaled to frame media was actually still 100% in scale when it has been shrunk to fit. Look at the motion properties, it still says its 100%.
😉
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[Ariel Brener]

“you can edit the 16×9 media in a 4×3 Seq with the scale to frame function. it will force fit the widescreen to be the exact
proportions required to fit perfectly with letterboxing. This feature can be switched on to apply to any media added to timeline be default in the Preferences>General tab.”

Thanks – Jon Barrie!
Sounds great only problem that when I check this option – and put the selected 16:9 clip to the 4:3 timeline – nothing changes – the footage is still cropped! 🙁

Check this:

I even tried to restart Premiere (for changes to take place) – nothing..

What am I doing wrong?

BTW great web site you got there!

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[Jon Barrie]

This is indeed odd. A restart should get it going correctly if its not happy. What you can do in the mean time, as annoying as it is, select all the clips in the timeline. Then right click over one of them and select the scale to frame option in the list. It will apply to all selected clips. If you have 4×3 clips in a 4×3 timeline they are not visually affected. 😉
Then keep working. did you add the clip to the timeline after the setting was ticked. If you already have clips inside a timeline they will not be updated. Only the newly added to timeline clips will have the function active.
– Jon Barrie 😉

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