Changing frame rate on clips

Ian26

Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline

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Jul 27, 2014 02:27

Hello there,

Still learning with PD12. I have made a Blu-ray disc from footage shot at 50p from a canon Legria HD Camcorder. No problems there as I was trying to find the best quality setting and I am going to go with 50p setting over MXP and FXP.

As we are off on an overseas holiday on Thursday I wanted to iron out any teething problems. I have created maps with a trace on them to show where we are going/have been, as AVI's. They are in 1920 x 1080 at 25fps, (running for 5 seconds). But now I realise I may have to convert them to 50fps to use with clips from the camera. Is there a program that can convert 25fps clips to 50fps as I don't want to have to do them all again! There are 98 clips of these AVI's, and at the moment I am getting a warning message in PD12 that the settings from the map clips don't match the project settings.

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions. IanB
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jmone

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Jul 27, 2014 04:09

It's all good. PD will convert them from 25fps to 50fps and as they are an exact multiple the result will be fine when you produce at 50fps. PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
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Ian26

Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline

Jul 27, 2014 09:05

Thanks jmone,

The way I read the warning message is that I either have to change the project's frame rate or only use clips with the same frame rate as the project's. So does PD12 change it in the Produce or Create disc section?

I did find software to do what I need (Prism Video File Converter from NCH software) but it almost doubles the size of the file (from about 950MB or thereabouts to 1.8GB

Thanks


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IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jul 27, 2014 09:36

Quote: Thanks jmone,

The way I read the warning message is that I either have to change the project's frame rate or only use clips with the same frame rate as the project's. So does PD12 change it in the Produce or Create disc section?

I did find software to do what I need (Prism Video File Converter from NCH software) but it almost doubles the size of the file (from about 950MB or thereabouts to 1.8GB

Thanks

That frame rate message is just a warning, no big problem will arise from miss-match frame-rates.
When the timeline is Produced, the produced file will have a single frame-rate.

Preferences > Confirmation. uncheck 'Always prompt me when timeline frame-rate conflict '

File size is mostly the bit-rate of the encoding. In many cases you have a low rate original, the encoder may encode bit-rates higher making the file larger.

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Ian26

Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline

Jul 27, 2014 09:43

Thanks Carl,

That's what I wanted to know, as I didn't fancy having to do them all again, or for that matter converting them all.

IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jul 27, 2014 11:22

Quote: Thanks Carl,

That's what I wanted to know, as I didn't fancy having to do them all again, or for that matter converting them all.

There are rare times when mixed frame rates do cause some problems.

But when you Produce the project all of the videos in the timeline will be rendered to one frame rate, one resolution, one bit rate and one file type.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.