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SD Letterbox 4:3 Seq with HD Rushes to 16:9 Sequence Painlessly
Hi
For reasons best left unexplained I recently worked on a project with HD ProRes source material, outputting SD 4:3 Letterbox.
At the end of the edit I was then told I had to output to a SD anarmorphic version.
No Problem I thought, I’ll just dupe the sequence click the “anamorphic” setting and I’m away.Not so easy!
I tried removing attributes, editing the 4:3 sequence into a HD 16:9 sequence but nothing seems to work, leaving me with either lots of resizing or a very squashed image.
Without re-editing the entire project in a new anamorphic sequence is there a painless way to change it from 4:3 SD letter-boxed (with HD Rushes) to SD Anamorphic sequence?
I know the workflow is wrong and next time I will do it differently but i just need to know, to get me out of a hole!
Hope this makes sense.
David
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1 Reply
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Can’t you just export your finish HD project as a self contained movie and import that back into FCP. Then use easy set up to give you a NTSC 720×480 or 486 16:9 anamorphic sequence, and drop the HD material in the SD sequence. Boom! You have HD in an anamorphic SD sequence.
Also, make sure your frame rates match.
OS 10.5.5, Mac Pro 2 x 3 ghz quad-core intel xenon, 9 gb ram, with BM Intensity Pro card
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