Conforming SD clips to an HD Sequence

Hi folks. I'm having trouble conforming SD clips to match my HD sequence settings. I've checked 'always scale clips to sequence size' in Preferences. Also, manually conforming clips in the Modify menu doesn't work either. The scale, aspect ratio of the SD clips remain the same. I must be missing something obvious here. Hope you can help.. All My Best, Ben Swen

Are you putting SD clips on an HD timeline because you have other actual HD clips you want to mix in with the SD? If not, and you're just trying to get a 16:9 look, you can fake the look with letterboxing. If there's a reason you need to do what you're doing, let me know and we'll go from there.

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