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Rebuild A Sequence
I messed up my HD project by first starting it in Express and moving it to Pro.
Somewhere early on I placed my HD footage into an SD project. Now after creating a correct HD project, I can’t import the sequence because it references the HD inside an SD project. It brings in the letterboxed clips.
I want to get the sequence data and rebuild it with the original HD files. What is the best way to do this in FCP?
At the very least, can I print out an edl and rebuild?
I’m an old Avid editor making the switch-over so some detail would really be helpful.
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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Is it just displaying the HD footage letterboxed? Check the clip info and deselect the anamorphic setting and see what happens.
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From what I can tell, It is the sequence that is set to SD. When I choose ‘item properties’ for the clip it shows Pixel Aspect…HD(960×720).
If I choose a sequence and hit ‘Item properties’ it tells me the frame size is 720×480 and pixel aspect is NTSC-CCIR 601. There is nothing beside Anamorphic in the item properties. It looks letterboxed. If I double click on a clip in the sequence it loads it into the viewer letterboxed.
Today I created a proper DVCProHD sequence. There is NO letterboxing. I can load up the raw footage without letterboxing as well. The problem now is when I try to drag an old SD sequence into my new project – i get the error message “Operation Not Allowed. You Cannot Nest Sequences With Different Editing Timebases”.
Is there any way to recreate my sequences?
Thanks!
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Sean, have you tried simply copying the timeline edit and pasting it into the new sequence? That will get rid of the editing timeline base error you are seeing. I can envision problems with this, but once the media is copied into the new timeline, you may be able to select and remove attributes. That might reset any pixel changes from the SD renders, but it will also lose keyframing and such. I’m not entirely sure it will work perfectly, but it’s worth a shot. At the very least you get some more information and only end up wasting a few minutes and some keystrokes. It’s worth a shot.
Josh
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I copied the SD timeline into the the HD timeline but I still got the letterbox. Couldn’t find a way to unlink it from the 4:3 sequence.
However, it did help me in a way to manually rebuild all the sequences. I ended up copying the “bad sequence” and placing it several layers up in the good timeline. I could then follow along like a template and duplicate what was done below. It took a few hours to rebuild but I couldn’t find another way out.Thanks for the help!
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