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Issues with mixing frame rates ...
SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jul 26, 2013 09:16 Messages: 79 Offline
[Post New] Aug 12, 2013 08:29
I shoot in several different frame rates (primarily 60fps & 30fps) and want to use clips with different frame rates in the same project. PD is saying to keep clips at the same frame rate or degradation could result. This is not good. What types of degradation will mixing frame rates cause? Is there any way around these problems?
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
[Post New] Aug 12, 2013 13:49
Quote: I shoot in several different frame rates (primarily 60fps & 30fps) and want to use clips with different frame rates in the same project. PD is saying to keep clips at the same frame rate or degradation could result. This is not good. What types of degradation will mixing frame rates cause? Is there any way around these problems?

That is a warning which can be turned off. Warnings are in Preferences > Confirmation.

There is little or no issues with mixing 30 fps and 60 fps video in Powerdirector.

SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jul 26, 2013 09:16 Messages: 79 Offline
[Post New] Aug 12, 2013 15:03
I hope that's true, but it's not what I'm seeing. I have an .avi video that I captured at 30fps using HyperCam2 at FHD (1920x1080). If I view the .avi outside of PD, it looks OK (but it's playing a little faster than the original but I can live with that or hopefully slow it down a bit from within PD) . If I attempt to preview it from PD (as an external clip or as part of my project) its resolution is really degraded. Why is this?

I'll try to render it and see what the result looks like.
SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jul 26, 2013 09:16 Messages: 79 Offline
[Post New] Aug 12, 2013 15:34
OK, I rendered it to an H.264 AVC at 1920x1080/60p and it actually looks pretty good with the 30fps .avi & some Hero3 FHD footage at 60fps. So, it appears the preview is really not showing the actual results. Is there some way to enhance the preview? I have a fairly powerful machine (Lenovo W530, 16G RAM, K2000M GPU). Would like to preview at the same quality level as I'll have after rendering.
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
[Post New] Aug 12, 2013 18:44
Quote: OK, I rendered it to an H.264 AVC at 1920x1080/60p and it actually looks pretty good with the 30fps .avi & some Hero3 FHD footage at 60fps. So, it appears the preview is really not showing the actual results. Is there some way to enhance the preview? I have a fairly powerful machine (Lenovo W530, 16G RAM, K2000M GPU). Would like to preview at the same quality level as I'll have after rendering.

The preview is just that a low res preview.

You can change the preview resolution.
Be aware that Full HD preview will likely drag your computer to a crawl.



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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Aug 12. 2013 18:45

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.

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