<p>It's a bit hacky, but I found a solution that did the trick. I opened my .prproj file with a text editor and made these find-replace all changes:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;MZ.Sequence.PreviewFrameSizeHeight&gt;480
changed to
&lt;MZ.Sequence.PreviewFrameSizeHeight&gt;720

&lt;MZ.Sequence.PreviewFrameSizeWidth&gt;720
changed to
&lt;MZ.Sequence.PreviewFrameSizeWidth&gt;1280

&lt;FrameRect&gt;0,0,720,480&lt;/FrameRect&gt;
changed to
&lt;FrameRect&gt;0,0,1280,720&lt;/FrameRect&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>If anyone else has this problem and is desperate for a fix, this should do it, although I recommend making a backup first.</p>

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Welcome to Video Production.  Glad you got it worked out and thanks for posting how you got it.
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Hayden Schiff
<p>I am very new to Premiere (CSD 5) and have put myself in a bit of a bind. I have four clips of footage I edited into one multicam clip. The clips are 720p; however, the sequence where I synced them up was 480p. I didn't notice this and so I nested that sequence inside another sequence so I could do the multicam editing.</p>

<p>The footage shows at the correct resolution in the multi-camera monitor, interestingly enough, but it's masked by black bars everywhere else (including when I try to export). Is there any way I can fix this without having to re-edit my entire 25 minute clip? Perhaps I could somehow make it so that all the references to the bad sequence are replaced with references to the same timestamp in a good sequence?</p>

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How can I fix a resolution discrepancy between nested sequences?
Hayden Schiff
# How can I fix a resolution discrepancy between nested sequences?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-05-18)

I am very new to Premiere (CSD 5) and have put myself in a bit of a bind. I have four clips of footage I edited into one multicam clip. The clips are 720p; however, the sequence where I synced them up was 480p. I didn't notice this and so I nested that sequence inside another sequence so I could do the multicam editing.

The footage shows at the correct resolution in the multi-camera monitor, interestingly enough, but it's masked by black bars everywhere else (including when I try to export). Is there any way I can fix this without having to re-edit my entire 25 minute clip? Perhaps I could somehow make it so that all the references to the bad sequence are replaced with references to the same timestamp in a good sequence?

**Tags:** premiere, cs5


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2014-05-18. Score: 1

It's a bit hacky, but I found a solution that did the trick. I opened my .prproj file with a text editor and made these find-replace all changes:
480
changed to
720

720
changed to
1280

0,0,720,480
changed to
0,0,1280,720

If anyone else has this problem and is desperate for a fix, this should do it, although I recommend making a backup first.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Welcome to Video Production.  Glad you got it worked out and thanks for posting how you got it.  

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