Forgot to check on "Anamorphic" in Sequence Settings....

Hi Everyone,
I'm working on a wedding shot in 16:9. Everything looks fine, but for the ceremony sequence, I somehow forgot to click on anamorphic and now I have bars on the top and bottom. When I click on anamorphic, I still have the bars, but now the image is stretched out and distorted.
This ceremony sequence was created by copying and pasting from another sequence, which was check-on for anamorphic and looks fine, but all my editing was done on this newer ceremony sequence which did not have anamorphic settings originally. Do I have to go and create a whole new sequence and re-edit all over again?
Thanks,
Vicky

Open a clip in the affected sequence in the viewer, go to the motion tab, and under distort, try changing the number by adding or subracting 33.33. If it works, copy the clip, and paste attributes to all your other affected clips.

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