Sequence settings / codec for cutting iPhone material

Anyone know what settings a sequence should have for cutting video shot on an iPhone? Is the iPhone shooting NTSC (I'm assuming that's the case because if I change the settings to PAL it all needs rendering, which has a noticeable jitter after rendering)?
The audio is at 44.1. I need to output to a PAL DVD ultimately.

H264 video is not recommended for editing and that is most likely what your phone files are.
Convert your iPhone files to ProRes in Compressor. You can edit in a 640x480(360-16x9) sequence and then convert to PAL when you are done.
You will blowing up your video because the files are smaller(pixel wise) than PAL video and have less lines(525).
You can try compressor for the format conversion but Natress will do a much better job in my opinion.

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PROBLEM:
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After I export to Quicktime with current settings, the video plays back with a small black bar above and below the footage. Weird. This seems kind of normal to me, except these bars never existed when I edited in 720. Not that it looks bad, I'm just confused why the bars are there when they weren't there in 720.
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When I export this, no black bars above and below.
So why -- If my settings are basically the same except for the 1080/720 substitution -- do I get the above/below black boxes for 1080 and I don't get them for 720?
I don't think I want the box. Don't like the box. The box is bad. I think.
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I'll send my thanks over here, too, Shane. Posting on multiple sites because project is due today.
Hopefully this will be a lesson learned and my sequence settings are point-on from here on out.
If anyone else is reading this and has a similar problem, though, Shane came up with the solution:
"Highlight all the footage you pasted...then right-click and choose REMOVE ATTRIBUTES. Then check BASIC MOTION." After checking basic motion, you also have to check distort.
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I'm about to start a project with a few different formats combined on the same sequence, so I'm wondering what format you would all use for the sequence?
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I've edited mixed footage before, and I generally use the sequence for the "hardest" footage to edit (which is generally AVCHD). I do it no because I know that to be the best, but because I DON'T know what information specifically goes into the different sequences, and I do know that AVCHD can tax my system, so when I have to use it, I try to optimize for it.

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What I want for final output is a pristine master (basically I want what I see is what I get) that I can then downcompress for either internet (h264?) or dvd without too much headache. I think Animation only plays on computers? Would it hurt quality badly moving it to a dvd that is playable on dvd players? Or is another setting that I don't know the solution?
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Sequence settings mistake

Hey -
I somehow have edited most of a very complicated video with the wrong sequence settings. For some reason, it's set to both a 4:3 aspect ratio and a much smaller image size, but I didn't notice because it retained the aspect ratio of the video files I was using, it just put bars at the top and bottom to make them fit, if that makes sense. It was stupid of me not to notice, or even check, but it's too late now.
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I have figured out what seems to be a moderate solution - I created a new sequence with the proper settings, copied all of the old sequence into the new one, and then went through conforming every video clip individually to the sequence. I had to delete and reinsert all of the dissolves, which is a pain, but it's better than re-editing the whole thing.
Can somebody tell me whether this is a reasonable solution?
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Sequence settings ratio error - project ruined?

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The raw footage I started with was H.264, 1920 x 1080.
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Unfortunately, I started editing it in Final Cut without changing the project settings to anamorphic 16:9, which means when I export the video, it's horizontally squashed with the dreaded letterboxes on the top and bottom. Trying to change the Sequence Settings in Final Cut leads to a very broken looking video and lots of 'unrendered' messages.
As the source footage IS in the right format, I thought it would be simple enough to swap the resolution in Final Cut, but apparently not. Is there any way around this, or is the project basically no good (unless I export with letterboxes).
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o maybe FCP is only able to work in certain formats without having to compress ?o maybe FCP is only able to work in certain formats without having to compress ?
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