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Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 12:44 pm in reply to: Change Sequence Settings to Original Media Specs

Thanks for the great tip. Will try it out. Why won’t FCP fix the frame rate issue? Not like anything was redigitized or exported at a diff rate? Avid has the same issue. It is all software and 1’s and 0’s. Seems like there should be some programming genius who could do it.

Paul Ewen
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Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 12:16 pm in reply to: CREATE A MACO IN FCP??? Is it possible?

Nick-

All of your solutions are great. I’ll try them out. I like the XML idea. Very good.

Thanks.
Paul

Paul Ewen
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Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 4:41 am in reply to: Change Sequence Settings to Original Media Specs

Yes, I have learned a lot on this project. I guess I should have been mre careful with setup, but was doing too much at one time and was under the gun. I guess in the end, I can put the 29.97 sequences into a 23.98 sequence and put it back to the way it started. Right?

Paul Ewen
Owner/Editor
http://www.ewenindustries.com
Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 4:38 am in reply to: CREATE A MACO IN FCP??? Is it possible?

Ok, I mistakenly set up a whole bunch of sequences with settings that don’t match my original footage. Footage is 1080i/24p Apple Pro-Res and my bad sequences are DVCHD Pro 1440 29.97. So these sequences squished all the footage incorrectly. I was using PluralEyes to sync up thousands of shots to a different audio track. Plural Eyes makes its own sequences with the synced audio. It took me 4 days to sync up everything. I then started making subclips from the BAD sequences and only realized my mistake today. A week later. So, I want to create a MACRO or BATCH MACRO to fix the 100s of sequences that I have to fix. I can do all them by hand, but I want to speed up the process. Is that so wrong???? I usually cut on AVID and forgot that FCP has all of the ridiculous issues with sequence settings. So, now I need to FIX and using a BTACH MACRO would help so much. If I can highlight my sequences and apply the MACRO to change their settings that would be GREAT!!! Help? How do I use Quickeys?

Paul Ewen
Owner/Editor
http://www.ewenindustries.com
Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 4:10 am in reply to: CREATE A MACO IN FCP??? Is it possible?

Doesn’t matter what I want to do except I want to create a MACRO that will record a bunch of functions that I can apply to a sequence or group of sequences. Same way that you can record actions in Photoshop. Does FCP have a way to record actions?

Paul Ewen
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http://www.ewenindustries.com
Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 3:19 am in reply to: Change Sequence Settings to Original Media Specs

thanks!

Paul Ewen
Owner/Editor
http://www.ewenindustries.com
Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 2:24 am in reply to: CREATE A MACO IN FCP??? Is it possible?

I want to make a macro that will Sequences>setting>load a preset sequence setting and then go to modify>compress video. I have a number of sequences that I have to do this to and it would also be great if I could select all of the sequences and apply this MACRO to it. Is it possible?

Paul Ewen
Owner/Editor
http://www.ewenindustries.com
Paul Ewen
July 15, 2010 at 1:07 am in reply to: Change Sequence Settings to Original Media Specs

Ok, I figured out a workaround to my problem. But I CAN’T CHANGE THE TIMECODE OF THE SEQUENCE. The original footage is 23.976 and the current sequence is 29.97. Is there really NO WAY to change the frame rate of a sequence????

Paul Ewen
Owner/Editor
http://www.ewenindustries.com