[Mihael Tominšek]

Pablo Geh – You’re a life saver.
I had 90 minutes long feature with 243 nested sequences in SD (working as offline), trying to finish in HD. Nightmare.

Your solution is great but I would like to add:

– big premiere files are difficult to open in many program. They just crash. I tryed in Dreamwewer, Notepad, Word pad… But “Notepad++” opens instantly and replaces 3000+ instances in a second or two, while Dreamweawer (if not crashing) needs 10 minutes in same PC (2600K/16GB/2xSSD).

– dimension is not only to look after. If working from 1920×1080 to 1280×720 (and back), it’s ok. But if you have 1440*1080 HDV and working in DV which is 720*576, you need to change aspect ration as well. You can force PAR in Premiere, but again you can not change sequence settings.

You must find and change two things:

PixelAspectRatio 1024,702 (brackets are lef out)
FrameRect 0,0,720,576

to

PixelAspectRatio 1920,1440
FrameRect 0,0,1440,1080

There is a lot of things which could be “batch” changed or corrected this way in premiere projects, which Premiere does not allow for it self. Remember how long we waited for “remove filters” from multiple clips… I thing only from CS4+ we can do that. Before… Clip by clip.

If someone would write some simple software which would read PPro projects and present it in some graphic interface, we could easily convert, change, maintain thing.

Maybe I’ll write it myself, now I know this hack, thanks to you Pablo Geh 🙂