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Resizing Sequences in PPro CS6
Morning Folks!
I’ll get right down to it: i’ve been editing a multicam project from a live concert that i shot back in March. The footage was a mix of DSLR footage (1280×720 60p) and Standard Def handycams.
When i made my first sequence i (unfortunately) used one of the Adobe 720 presets. After bringing in all my footage and syncing the multiple tracks with pluraleyes, i would copy the sequence, select which song i wanted to focus on and cut away the excess footage, nest the layers and MC edit from there.
Meeting with a fellow editor last night i realized i had made a grave error – the original 720 preset i had used was a 720 x480 sequence, and not the 1280×720 as i had hoped.
Since PPro doesn’t allow me simply to resize a sequence (anyone know why that is?) I am looking for a work around to maintain these edits and put them into a 1280×720 sequence but have no idea where to start.
As i have a dual boot system and access to FCPX trial, im wondering if i can export the 720×480 sequences as XMLs and load them into FCP resize them to 1280, then re-import these XMLs back into PPro into a 1280 sequence. Has anyone tried this? Can anyone offer an easier solution?
Next time i’ll make sure to choose sequences settings the way im used to – by manually setting the dimensions myself!
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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Make a new sequence,
copy from old sequence and paste into new one.———————————————–
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Create a new sequence with the proper settings, copy & paste the original timeline material to it.
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Thanks for the response Ann & Eric.
So my multicam sequence copy and pasted inside a new 1280×720 sequence, but then isn’t the nested sequence the multicam cut is built on is still only 720×480.
I believe i tried this last night but when i dropped the footage into the new sequence and tried to scale up footage it was restricted to the 4:3 aspect ratio of the original nested sequence and will not fill the frame.
If i copy my nested sequence into the new 1280×720 sequence (which i have begun doing) i would have to redo all my multicam edits, wouldn’t I?
Or is there a way to re-link which nested sequence i am pulling from?
To Clarify:
Me:
Sequence 1 – Sync Map/Nested Sequence of all footage (720×480)
Sequence 2 – MultiCam Edit based on Sequence 1 (also 720×480)Your suggestion (if i am reading you right):
Sequence X – Resized sequence (1280×720) with Sequence 1 footage copied into it. Then…nest footage again and re-cut the multicam?The step i’m trying to avoid here is the re-cut of the multicams for each song/track if it can be avoided.
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Right click…”scale to frame size”.
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