Can PD 19 produce H.264 in 16fps?

cassb

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Oct 07, 2020 14:29

I have some 8mm movie film scanned into 2K ProRes H.264 files at its native speed of 16fps. I imported the scanned video files into a PD 17 project and added some titles and narration. I want to produce a H.264 2K file from the project at 16fps, but I don't see that in the output options. Does any new version of PD allow 16fps output speed?

Thanks!


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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Oct 08, 2020 00:22

Hi cassb -

You can do that, & you're on the right track. To get a 16fps profile, though, you need to manually edit the Profile.ini

Make a new custom profile called (say) "2K 16fps"

Select the options you want - you could select 15 as the frame rate - and save the profile.

Go to C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\19.0\UserConfigure to find your Profile.ini

Open it with Notepad

Where it says "<Frame Rate>15.000000", change it to "<Frame Rate>16.000000"

Save it and close.

Back in PDR, in the Produce module, select your 16fps profile and hit Start.

An example profile is attached, as is the MediaInfo report from the produced file.

Cheers - Tony

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cassb

Newbie Joined: Mar 21, 2019 11:29 Messages: 20 Offline

Oct 08, 2020 08:24

Quote Hi cassb -

You can do that, & you're on the right track. To get a 16fps profile, though, you need to manually edit the Profile.ini

Make a new custom profile called (say) "2K 16fps"

Select the options you want - you could select 15 as the frame rate - and save the profile.

Go to C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\19.0\UserConfigure to find your Profile.ini

Open it with Notepad

Where it says "<Frame Rate>16.000000", change it to "<Frame Rate>15.000000"

Save it and close.

Back in PDR, in the Produce module, select your 16fps profile and hit Start.

An example profile is attached, as is the MediaInfo report from the produced file.

Cheers - Tony

Thank you, Tony, that did the trick. Now I have to figure out how to produce a video file with both 29.97fps and 16fps clips in it and keep it from being jittery. :

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Oct 08, 2020 09:59

Try this. Use a 28.97 fps timeline setting. Slow down the film footage 6.25%. 15/16= 0.9375. The 16 fps footage should then not be jitter in a 30 or 29.97 fps timeline. The pal system with film does the same thing with an audio pitch correction.