Shot in 4:3 and captured in 16:9

I made the biggest rookie mistake of my life and now I'm trying to be lazy and get out of it without having to recut. I shot some standard footage in 4:3 and as a habit of only doing 16:9 projects forgot to change the capture setting to 4:3 so my footage was captured in 16:9. Is there anyway without recapturing the footage to convert the 16:9 footage back to 4:3? I cannot believe I did that but am trying to get this project out the door because it was a freebie. Thanks for any advice.

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:
but wouldn't the anamorphic distortion have been totally visible...
No. while you are capturing sd you always see the 4:3 full frame. as it is on tape. If the footage is anamorphic you'll see a 4:3 frame with tall people and objects.
When you capture as anamorphic the only thing you realy do is tell fcp to treat the footage as being anamorphic, because fcp cannot see the difference. Because both 4:3 and 16:9 are 720x576 (sorry, I choose PAL for exemple). So it's just a flag for fcp to know how to deal with it.
Change the flag and all is right again.
... I suspect it's not just plain old DV.
This whole story counts for all Standard Defenition footage. DV, digital betacam, xdcam, etc
Rienk

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