[Rachel Adams]

THANK YOU! This sounds like it _should_ be pretty easy!

…unfortunately… When I tried to “Save As,” it wouldn’t let me. The drive with the AVI files is “read only” but I’m trying to “Save As” onto a different drive (both connected through my MacBook Pro). Shouldn’t I be allowed to do that?

I’m going to keep fiddling with it, but I’m nervous. My friend uploaded the AVI files using a PC — does that matter in my “re-wrapping” them??

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[Rachel Adams]

Thank you very much for answering! That whole re-capturing/timecode-matching thing is scary, indeed, so I hope it doesn’t come to that. Still, even if I have to (nightmare!!) adjust the In and Out points on every clip, that’s better than trying to figure out which take I used for every single one as well! Plus — do you agree that once I figure out how many frames the recapture is off by, they’ll ALL be off by the same amount? That would make sense, right? So it would be tedious to fix, but I wouldn’t have to re-edit, conceptually. Right?

And thanks for the words on the squeezed image — I thought exporting it as “anamorphic” would automatically letterbox it, so I will now look into various other options – I may have an old Roxio Toast on my older computer – do people still use that? Will that have a letterbox option?

Thanks again!
Rachel