Resetting the default sequence settings… instant correctness without adustment

[Shane Ross]

Yes. Go into the EASY SETUPS…choose the one that matches what you are doing. Or modify one to match…and have that selected. Then every new sequence will have those settings.

Shane
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[Travis Roesler]

Hey Shane,

Thanks for the help man! Unfortunately, I went into easy setups, and nothing seems to match my currect sequence settings. When I hit command 0 to pull up the sequence settings, it says HD 1440×1080… nowhere in the entire “easy setup” list is that option given. I don’t know what to pick and I dont want to screw up my video :-/

[Shane Ross]

Look at the HDV settings. They are 1440×1080. There’s also a ProRes 1440×1080 setting, for HDV captured as ProRes. You don’t have those?

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[Travis Roesler]

I uploaded a couple of images for ya so you can see what the heck im dealing with here.

[Shane Ross]

I don’t see them.

You should have HDV 1080i60…and i50, I’m not sure what frame rate you are working with. 1440×1080 is an HDV frame size.

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[Joseph Owens]

Why not try dropping a clip onto a sequence, accept the Apple dialog to change the sequence settings to match the media… note the settings that Apple creates, and then use that data to create your own Easy Setup?

jPo

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[Travis Roesler]

I was doing that, but when you have 200 sequences to make, the keystrokes add up. The problem that I’m having is that after I accept the dialogue and look at the settings, I’m not able to see an identical option in the easy set up.

There should be some type of auto detect easy set-up, or “copy sequence settings”… I’m mad that there isnt.

[Brad Elliott]

Wouldn’t this work?

Create a sequence with the proper settings and remove any clips etc.
Duplicate
rename
paste new content

Even with easy set-up you will still have to name the sequence and paste the content

[Nick Meyers]

i think most people are suggesting going beyond the Easy Setup and creating your own sequence preset
this would be done in your A/V settings (under the FCP menu)

i have another solution.

put ALL the clips into one sequence.
duplicate the sequence (not absolutely necessary, but wont hurt either)

now go through your sequence, select each clip and NEST it (optionC)

one cool thing about this is that the clip name will automatically be the nest name, saving you the chore of naming each new sequence after the clip.

nick

[Travis Roesler]

That’s brilliant… and by brilliant, I mean completely obvious but yea… why the hell didn’t I think to just duplicate the same sequence over and over.

Good call man, thanks!