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Mov RAW profile produces at wrong frame rate
trevorjharris [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 14, 2011 08:51 Messages: 15 Offline
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When I try to encode a video with the RAW mov format there is no way to specify the frame rate or if the file is interlaced or progressive. When I tried encoding a 50i video it produced a file at 29.97.

The reason I wanted to use this was that it seems to be the only true lossless format supported. It is a great pitty that PowerDirector does not support Video For Windows or DirectShow encoders. I would love to use cineform in PD.
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
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You should have several choices in the Produce Module. AVCHD has several profiles in HD.

Your frame rate is affected by your TV mode in Preferences on the General tab, NTSC is 30 frames (29.97 fps), PAL is 25 frames.

There are profiles in the Produce module for Cine which are 24 frames/sec.

You have to pick what profile you Produce in.
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Xerox [Avatar]
Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2009 01:36 Messages: 446 Offline
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In addition to what Carl wrote, you can create a custom MOV profile and then modify (hack) the Profile.ini file to change the frame rate.

After selecting .MOV in Produce window, you'll see a button with a "+" under the "Profile name/Quality" dropdown list. Click that button to open up the custom profile dialog and pick your codec and quality, etc.. Save the new custom profile and remember the name of it.

Next use Explorer to navigate to the file "Profile.ini" in the hidden App folder. I'm still on XP so the Profile.ini file is in C:\documents and settings\[owner name]\application data\cyberlink\powerdirector\10.0.

Open up the Profile.ini file with notepad, then search for the custom profile name. Once you've found it, look for the next <Frame Rate> tag and you'll see the current FPS. Change the frame rate, taking care not to delete the special characters separating fields, and save the file.

Now produce your MOV file using the custom profile.

All the MOV formats you can select in PDR10 are progressive. The Animation codec also has a lossless format.

In order to access the Microsoft AVI formats, your project has to be in 4:3 aspect ratio, not widescreen. And if your clips are widescreen, you should probably change those to 4:3, using the right-click pop-up menu, in order to avoid letterboxing. Then in the Produce window, click the .AVI button. For "Profile type" you can select "Windows-AVI." Click the Settings button below that to open up the custom dialog, and pick the codec and other settings. When you use those produced clips on the timeline, and if they are suppose to be widescreen, you'll need to change their aspect ratios to 16:9 using the right-click pop-up menu.

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trevorjharris [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 14, 2011 08:51 Messages: 15 Offline
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Thanks for the profile.ini hack I managed to produced a 50i mov raw video. Why on earth are these options not on the menu options.

I tried the microsoft avi formats and I only got uncompressed option and it does not support HD.

I wondered if there is a hack for the 3d Blu-ray encoder as it is fixed at a fairly low bitrate.?
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