Scaling Multiple Clips

[Vincent Rosati]

Am I correct in saying that your project is 16×9, and your source material is 4:3 that has been upscaled to fill the screen?

Anyway, resize the first clip in the sequence to your desired size, than Ctrl+C (copy) your transformation from the Effects Control panel, than select/highlight all of the rest of the clips in the sequence and press Ctrl+V (paste).

Another option would be, if you already have all of your clips in a timeline sequence you could nest that sequence into another sequence, than apply your scaling to the nested sequence. In this way, you can apply an effect to all clips.

However, it sounds like you’ve already upscaled your video, so the nesting trick wouldn’t work as the nested sequence would be cropped to 16:9 and a reduction in size wouldn’t recover the cropped areas.

Additional notes: Effect/Distort/Transform is a better tool for scaling, but it increases the render time.
If your footage is interlaced, it should be deinterlaced before any scaling.
All source material should be conformed to the project settings to avoid unexpected results during rendering, via right-clicking on the source in the project window. So, if you are using 4:3 material in a 16:9 project, conform it to 16:9 than Effects/Distort/Transform the width to 75% than check the Uniform Scale box before additional scaling.

So, uh.. yes, to answer your question. :)lol

[Wild Willy]

Vincent,

Thank you for your input. It

[Vincent Rosati]

Bill-
I misunderstood your issue. I offered some ideas that didn’t really apply. 🙁 Hope it wasn’t too confusing.

I’ll try to better explain the “mass scaling”.
Resize the first clip to your desired size – It sounds like you’ve done this, to 92%.
With the resized clip still selected in the sequence, under the Effect Controls panel, highlight the word “Motion”, than Ctrl+C (copy). This copies all of the Motion parameters into your clipboard.
Now you select all of the other clips in the sequence and Ctrl+V (paste). This will apply the copied Motion parameters to all of the clips that were selected.
Perhaps you were trying to click on the Scale parameter, and copy from it?

When you have clips grouped you won’t be able to see the motion/effect parameters, but you can still paste into them. You would have to ungroup the clips to see the parameters for a particular clip.

Regarding the “second idea”, nesting is when you take a completed sequence, from the Project palette, and drop it into the timeline of a newly created sequence. It will appear as one long “clip” in the new timeline. You can than apply effects to the nested sequence just as you would any single clip, only it will apply to all of the clips contained within the sequence. Having a better understanding of your problem, this may also work for you.

When you mentioned that you desired a scale of 92%, to make the full image visible on your screen, I had a thought.
In Premiere, on your Monitor controls there is a button on the right side that looks like cross-hairs, this button will toggle the Safe Margins – check it out.
The outer margin, the Action Safe Margin, is at 90% of the screen – So, your actually scaling down your video to approach this Action Safe Margin. (The inner margin is the Title Safe Margin, at 80%, btw)
Anyway, it sounds like your TV is overscanned, which is standard. So, when creating graphics for video, be mindful of these important margins.

But, in the end, I’m pretty sure the SDR-H200 shoots in 60i so any scaling, up or down, will reduce image quality.

Let us know how it goes. 🙂
Vince

[David Goodwin]

I had the same issue though with stills.

[Tom Mcguigan]

You Sir, are a wonderful human being. Thanks for that tip, it saved me hours and if you’re ever in Philadelphia I’m taking you to Dirty Franks!