This is wacky - but it worked! (multiformat multiclip)

Hi all,
Tell me why this worked...
I had a 4 angle multiclip sequence that I had synced up in DV from 3 HDV cams downconverted on capture and one SD cam.
I got the MXO box and got excited about HD editing and distribution, found that my system could easily RT ProRes (in medium quality) but choked on HDV.
Started re-capturing all my HDV footage as ProRes 422. Then found that I should not be able to include my SD angle in the multiclip that I had already setup.
But all footage being re-captured, tried it anyway by setting up my DV sequence with ProRes settings and then re-connecting my DV downconverts to the new ProRes files.
And it works! Plays back all angles, can switch and cut like before. The SD angle aspect ratio displays incorrectly, but I'm hoping - and here's my question - when I recompress back to SD for DVD distribution - will Compressor treat the different codecs separately and appropriately?
(I suppose an alternate solution would be downconvert from the MXO but this would be an analogue capture...)

I don't think it will work.
The multiclip clips must be the same settings (codec, framerate, AND dimensions),
so you have forced your SD clip into the HD dimensions, which is why it looks distorted.
However, now FCP thinks it's an HD clip, treating it "as-is".
Compressor will treat it the same way, i.e with the same distortion,
since Compressor has no way of knowing a component clip's history.
The only way to fix the aspect ratio is to export and upres your SD clip,
then import the upres to your project and make a new multiclip.
For the upres, you may want use the Motion tab settings so you can see
how the letterboxing/cropping is looking.
I hope that is useful.

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