Change source video (same video but better quality)?

Is it possible to change the source video of a project with another video which is the exact same video (same fps, same aspect ratio, same duration), but with a better resolution, where all the edits on the last source video will remain on the new source video?
My situation is that I've found a 720p version of the 480p video I have been working (a long time) with.

As Jim said, you can do this externally.
We sometimes run with proxy media and have that in the Proxy folder with the full quality in the Native (or ProRes) folder. You can either swap the folder names, move the files or in Premiere Pro you can take files OFFLINE then take the online again by right clicking and chosing reconnect media.
That's the easy part
If you've been editing on a 480p timeline then bringing in 720p footage means you either have to change the sequence settings (you could also create a new sequence with the right settings then copy/paste) or you need to tell Premiere Pro to scale your 720p footage down to the 480p sequence size.

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Though it is still weird for me that the 'bad' way PrPro renderes vector art (images and type) differs when different background footage is used.
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I create a prpro project with edits, and I want to send to a collegue to tweak it. No problem.
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My challenge is that I when he returns the file, I must replace the footage and re-create all of the in/out markers on each clip, as well as the effects.
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Use AME to transcode your original M2T clips to more highly-compressed M2T clips. Drop the originals into the AME Queue, and change the Format to MPEG2 (not MPEG2-DVD). Start with the "1440 x 1080i 29.97 High Quality" preset (this may actually be automatically selected), and then go to the Multiplexer tab and change the Multiplexing option to "TS." Tweak the video encoding parameters (primarily bit rate) as necessary, and save the new versions out somewhere. This seemed to work in my single clip test, though the more highly-compressed file settings may need some experimentation to get smooth playback.
If you already have MP4s, try changing the extension to M2T. Yeah, it might actually work. You can do this really quickly on the Windows command line (don't know how on Mac) by running a simple command:ren *.mp4 *.m2t
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I guess this is the right place to post for FCP 7?
I have a video project in which I've imported high quality video files (1280x1024 screen capture, AVI). I've made sure that my sequence settings match the same dimensions as the source clips and that compression is set to "None." The clip settings can't be modified, and there's no pop-up when I import a clip to the timeline asking if I want to change my sequence settings. I've removed all the attributes to the clips, but there's none applied. I do have to render, though.
When I preview the source video in the viewer it looks great, but in the canvas it looks like it's at half the quality or worse. The render comes out the same - horrible quality, despite being the right dimensions.
I have no idea what I'm missing. Why would it appear fine in the viewer but not in the canvas? Especially if my sequence settings aren't any lower?
I used the default settings when I created the project. If it wasn't set to "use settings from first clip," and somehow that's the issue, how can I change the project's settings without having to redo my whole film? Going to project properties in the edit menu doesn't give me any options for quality, size, etc.

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macalltheway wrote:
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Hard-drive camcorders record MPG2, which I assume makes them just as useless.
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