How can I 'greenline' ALL my footage? ...I know it's possible.

[Cameron Poole]

A couple of months ago I was working on a pilot TV show which consisted of Sony HD footage, a few Go Pro shots, one mov file and a few jpegs, and the lot went into the timeline without any horrible red lines appearing anywhere. I was however working with a far more experienced editor and veteran of German TV who knew exactly what he was doing.

I have only ever been able to get the timeline to accept my main source of footage, and I'm currently working on a video where I need to synch the main HD footage with mov files from Apple's Photobooth which I will use to mock up a Skype conversation, and it's these files which arrive in the timeline with a red line above them, making synchronization such a headache and the project virtually un-editable.

My learning curve would take a giant leap if I was able to know what I need to do to avoid this hassle. I have obviously missed something, or perhaps I need to change the settings on the mov files, but to what?

The sequence is matched to the settings of the HD footage.

Please help,

Many thanks

Cameron

[Jordan Hooper]

The German guy probably transcoded all the different formats to one ProRes format when you weren't looking then let the sequence conform to the first file he imported.