To capture in anamorphic or not?

Hi, I shot a few footages, most with camera's 16:9 setting on, some older footages are in 4:3. I'm confused on what setting to use. If the footages are 16:9, should I capture them with anamorphic settings? What happens if I don't? When I create a sequence, and I want it to be anamorphic, can I just drag and drop a regular 4:3 footage to it and will it convert automatically? If I use a 16:9 footage in a 16:9 sequence, does it automatically know that the footage is 16:9? Or if I use 16:9 footages, the sequence is automatically 16:9? Lastly, is the sequence setting used for the final output of the project, regardless of the different formats, resolutions of the footages?
Thanks for helping!
Tony

I'm battling insomnia, so I'll give this one a try...
Hi, I shot a few footages, most with camera's 16:9 setting on, some older footages are in 4:3. I'm confused on what setting to use.
Are you saying that from one tape - from a single camera - you've mixed 16:9 and 4:3 footage?
If that is the case:
Capture all your footage as 4:3
Comb thru your footage and make subclips for all your 16:9 footage. (If you've shot on DV, use DV Start/Stop Detect to speed things up)
With your Browser in List View:
Select all your (16:9) subclips and scroll over to the Anamorphic column.
With all your subclips still selected, Control-Click and select Yes from the contextual menu
Do not simply click in the column - that'll only affect one clip (and deselect all others)
If you did it right, all your subclips will now be Anamorphic 16:9
Decide how your want to mix your footage in order to determine if you need a 16:9 sequence or a 4:3 sequence
(Captain Mench has already told you what to do there)
If the footages are 16:9, should I capture them with anamorphic settings? What happens if I don't?
As the process above details, Anamorphic is a flag. Since it's not a codec - like, say, DV-NTSC or DV-PAL - once your footage is digitized (in the right codec) you can simply activate - or deactivate - that flag.
When I create a sequence, and I want it to be anamorphic, can I just drag and drop a regular 4:3 footage to it and will it convert automatically?
The 4:3 footage will appear with with black bars on the right and left. In the world of post-production, we call this windowboxing.
If I use a 16:9 footage in a 16:9 sequence, does it automatically know that the footage is 16:9?
So long as the flag is set in FCP's browser, the answer is yes.
Or if I use 16:9 footages, the sequence is automatically 16:9?
No, FCP works the other way around - the aspect ratio of the sequence determines how clips are displayed. If you want 16:9 footage to fill the frame - and look correct - drop it into a 16:9 sequence.
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