I had a load of 16x9 edits (27 in all), all segment connected and pattern browsed.
I’ve reformatted them all to 9x16 which (as the warning says as you do it) breaks the connections to anything not in the selection, but maintains them amongst the new 9x16 versions. That’s exactly what I want to do.
However I notice that as soon as you version up any segment, it loses it’s connections to the other 9x16 films. It’s connected before (colours sync between segments, I’m able to sync timeline effects etc), version up and it breaks and no other edits version up the same segment.
Removing segment connection and re-creating segment connections doesn’t work.
I’ve had to unlink and reconform all of the films and overwrite all the segment connections and then they work again.
That was yesterday, today I’m making the 1x1s and have the same issue. I’ve written this all while my pattern browse is loading every single version of every shot from the entire shots folder again.
I’m on 2025. Is this a known bug? Is it fixed in 2026?
Thanks. Will give this a go. When you say it’ll keep all connections, do you mean even between the different aspect ratios or just amongst the same aspect ratios?
I have been generally suspicious of Reformat since forever, as it spits out messaging saying it’s making a bunch of new frames that it shouldn’t be when you reformat stuff. I’m not sure what that Python script does, but I work around using Reformat by creating blank sequences at the destination resolution and hand-dropping a copy of my 16x9s into them. If you have 27 edits, this may be a fair bit of work, but it should maintain all your connections. Hopefully the script can do this for you!
Yeah, the thing is though, when I’m making social crops, I want refromat to do exactly what it says it will do - break the links to the 16x9s and keep the connections in the new ratios. That way you can change a resize in the 9x16 and then sync it to all the other films in that ratio without messing up the 16x9 versions. Doing the drop into empty timelines method maintains ALL the connections. Then you can no longer sync resizes. The work around is to move them to another reel group so they’re completely severed but I’d rather have all my masters together.
Brian - Your description is exactly what John’s python script does. It makes the new empty sequence at the new resolution, and then copy/pastes everything into it. No new frames from reformat and no connections broke.
If you’re like leo and you want the social size versions to all be connected to each other but not to the 16x9 edits… you can select everything in one 9x16 version, choose “Duplicate Connected Segments” and make a new set of connections in just that reel (with scope).
Put your 16x9 in one reel, and 9x16 in another reel. When you Duplicate Connected Segment, change the scope to “Current Reel” and only the sequences in that reel will get the new connection. You can replace instead of duplicate and you’re done.