Matching frame rate of 18.00 FPS not available on PD 13 (plus other questions)

Gazgord

Newbie Joined: Jan 18, 2015 11:20 Messages: 6 Offline

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Apr 21, 2023 06:53

Hi all

Having recently 'digitised' a large amount of original cine-film footage, I would now like to tidy up the footage (removing gaps and poor quality clips using Power Director 13.

Upon starting the process I have received two conflict notices. One regarding the aspect ratio and another relating to the frame rate. The aspect ratio issue is not a problem as this has been changed to 4:3 automatically. However, the frame rate is more of a problem because the FR for the digitised footage is 18.00 FPS). I have gone in to the 'Produce' tab and tried to set up a new custom profile with a frame rate of 18.00 (in the video tab of the Quality Profile Setup). However, 18.00 FPS is not available in the dropdown, only 15.00 FPS or the current default (23.976 FPS).

Can anyone advise how I can resolve this issue and if possible help with the other settings in the Quality Profile Setup for this type of footage, including apprpriate settings for Resolution, Profile Type, Entrophy Coding, Average Bitrate, Speed/Quality Indicator, Deblocking (Yes or No): -

I have attached a report of the digitised cine-film footage produced by MediaInfoOnline.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Gary

Filename	[EM14223-04] June's Silver Wedding - Crest Party - David+Adele wedding - Beatie+Harlod.mp4_MediaInfo.txt	Download
Description	MediaInfoOnline - description of digitised cine-film file
Filesize	3 Kbytes
Downloaded:	216 time(s)

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Apr 21, 2023 13:08

18fps not natively supported in PD13 so you’ll need to manually do that.

You’d start by making a custom profile similar to your source based on a default profile. Assuming your timeline is set to NTSC in pref, go to Produce and select default profile, H.264, MP4, 1920x1080/30P (16Mbps) and then select the “+” to customize. Give a valid name and description in the box to your liking. Then click the Video tab and set resolution to 1440x1080 and avg bitrate to 26300 to closely match your source. Close PD and then use windows explorer to migrate to %AppData%\CyberLink\PowerDirector\13.0 Open the file profile.ini at this location with a basic text editor like Notepad. Locate the profile created by the name you defined. Find the line <Frame Rate>29.969999 and change to 18.00 and save the profile.

Open PD and in the “Produce” module select this customized name profile for H.264. Verify produced file details with MediaInfo to see that it closely matches your source, major items would be Format, Bit rate, Width, Height, Frame rate and Scan type.

Jeff


Filename	PD13_18fps.png	Download
Description
Filesize	124 Kbytes
Downloaded:	10 time(s)

Gazgord

Newbie Joined: Jan 18, 2015 11:20 Messages: 6 Offline

Apr 22, 2023 05:55

Hi Jeff

I'll test out your solution shortly. I would never have come up with this approach myself so your help is really appreciated.

Many thanks.